Word: sermonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...
...Sunday is becoming the church's chief contribution to the long weekend. Why not, then, this spring, as not too radical a solution, extend Sunday morning worship opportunity into the week? Free the conscience of individuals for enjoyment of the long weekend by repeating the Sunday service and sermon the following Thursday night. In the spirit of Jesus, we might say: the sabbath was made for man-especially in New England in the springtime...
...Barth's sermon was reportedly seconded by a number of present and past Overseers in the congregation. Members of the church disclosed that the plan to publish and distribute it within the month...
...sermon was interpreted by some to represent the "voice of Unitarian Boston," clarifying "fundamental principles...
This has never, of course, prevented non-Christians from giving the Sunday sermon or speaking at the daily morning services in Appleton Chapel. But Sperry and his successor George A. Buttrick have had to say no to repeated requests for non-Christian marirages or funerals. These have come mostly from Jews; there have been one or two applications for Moslem services...