Word: sermonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soul to undertake the battle of righteousness. It taught him to renounce personal desires not by withdrawal from the world but by devotion to the service of his fellow man. In the Christian New Testament he found the stirrings of passive resistance in the words of the Sermon on the Mount...
...minutes each day, students, faculty and community members come together to hear a brief sermon and prayers before beginning the workday...
...folks in Lynchburg, a town like Laramie, Wyo., must seem a long way off. Lynchburg, in the foothills of central Virginia, is a good candidate for the capital of the Bible Belt: the Rev. Jerry Falwell preaches his Sunday sermon in the Thomas Road Baptist Church, one of more than 150 churches in this small city. Laramie is everything Lynchburg is not--flat and empty, a Wild West railroad-stop-turned-progressive college town. To imagine the two cities is to imagine the vastness of America...
...last weekend in Lynchburg, when Jerry Falwell preached a radically different kind of sermon, a ghost from Laramie was in the room...
...destructive. So when he publicly reversed some of his most extreme stances this week, his words made headlines. Before a packed sanctuary, the Rev. Falwell called on evangelical Christians to show love and toleration for gays and lesbians and to speak out against anti-gay hate crimes. The sermon capped what was billed as a weekend of reconciliation between Falwell and gay Christians, including a meeting for evangelicals and gays to get to know one another. Matthew Shepard must have been looking...