Word: sermonizer
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...President, Brigadier General José Efrain Ríos Montt, 56. As he has almost every Sunday evening since he assumed power in a March 1982 coup, the silver-mustached member of the California-based Christian Church of the Word last week appeared on Guatemalan television to deliver a sermon on patriotism, morality, local politics and the revelations of divine wisdom. He advised citizens against the use of drugs to combat high blood pressure because, he said, it led to impatience. That, in turn, could produce dictatorship, which, Rios Montt declared, "does not work...
Heckling is both a primitive art form and a kind of low-grade amateur guerrilla warfare, a nonviolent intellectual terrorism. Done properly, it produces roughly the effect achieved by releasing a bagful of garter snakes and rats in a cathedral: a spiritual shambles, the sermon in ruins, the bishop standing speechless at the altar...
...highly personal, highly charged with-emotion, some evoking despair, some inspiring hope and faith. When he finishes there is a hushed silence. The practice of ending each meeting with a student presentation began on the first day of class, when a student asked if she could try a sermon out on the class which she had prepared for that Sunday. Since then, students have presented brief plays, monologues, dialogues and poetry...
...that the Right Rev. Ronald Reagan journeyed last week to the holy precincts of the 41st annual convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in made Fla. His fiery sermon mixed statecraft and religion. He made politicians from Moscow to Washington sore and brought the divinity-school crowd out of their paneled studies with flutters and shrieks...
...sermon to 500,000 in Managua's vast Plaza 19 de Julio, the Pope left little doubt about where he stood in the church-state dispute. As a poster gallery of Nicaraguan revolutionary heroes kept silent watch, John Paul exhorted priests to obey their bishops and to preserve the unity of the church. It was a clear show of support for Archbishop Obando y Bravo. In tones that must have echoed strangely from the same platform Fidel Castro had once used to praise the Sandinistas, the Pope condemned the "popular church," a grassroots movement in Nicaragua committed to revolution...