Word: sermonizer
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Father Dudko's reputation rests mainly on nine sermons delivered at St. Nicholas' Church in Moscow in late 1973 and 1974. In the West, it is difficult to appreciate their impact or the courage required to deliver them. The churches in the U.S.S.R. are not permitted to distribute books publicly, conduct classes or discussion groups. Indeed, they cannot evangelize at all. The sermon is the only means left to instruct the faithful, but priests have long been expected to limit their remarks to matters of ritual...
...neighborhood. There is a certain air to the Irish pub that sets it apart: the creaminess of the stout, the smokiness of the wooden bar, the perfectly spherical physique of the bartenders. But most of all there is the conversation, which ranges from Joyce to the IRA, to the sermon that new priest had the nerve to preach last Sunday, but, by the fourth beer, always settles down to Sports...
...reputation never recovered from the Bay of Pigs, and he died in 1969. Some of the guests at his funeral noticed that the Presbyterian minister's eulogy soared to heights he had never reached before, in a style he had never used before. There was an explanation: the sermon was written...
...Huygen is not content to rest on subtlety and understatement, so he adds a final chapter to Gnomes that explicitly makes his point. In so doing he bludgeons us over the head with a simplistic sermon on "What We Should Learn From Gnomes." After reciting the familiar litany of human failings--wars, pollution, exploitation, violence, the gnome narrator concludes...
...when four new bishops were consecrated in Denver's Augustana Lutheran Church on Jan. 28 to lead the self-styled "Anglican Church of North America." Staying in the Episcopal Church, said one of the four later, "is like giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse." The fiery consecration sermon by the Rev. George Rutler of Rosemont, Pa., compared the new bishops to Moses for leading their people out of the Episcopal Egypt. After a service of nearly three hours, the solemn congregation burst into applause as the resplendently robed and mitered clergymen were declared to be bishops...