Word: sermonizer
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CERGYMEN are turning over faster than parishioners--some of them because they can't take it. The clergy today are much more liberal than their parishioners," Thompson said. "People only want a nice warm feeling in the pit of their stomach from a sermon. You can see them close their minds when you try to convince them of anything different. The older members of the church think the church belongs to them and they just want to be left alone. I've been beating my head against the wall trying to get them to change that idea...
...better wages. Since his accession in Boston in 1970, he has aligned himself with Boston's poor as well, assailing suburban Catholics for their failure to aid the inner city. A critic of the Viet Nam War, he condemned the bombing of Hanoi in his Christmas morning sermon...
...Jonathan Livingston Seagull is, indeed, a hot article. Seeing some implications for churchgoers, I preached a sermon called "Jonathan Livingston Christian" to a near-record crowd...
Never has a sermon been so well received. Women kissed and hugged me. Last week I preached it on a college campus and the students applauded. That was a first for me in 20 years of preaching...
...recitation is better based on Emily Dickinson's inspiration in writing the poems. My own feeling is that Emily Dickinson composed in order to ready her heart before God in the same way that Edward Taylor wrote his meditations to ready his heart for the composition of a sermon. But where Edward Taylor's Calvinist God of the 18th Century was as theologically and emotionally fixed as a God could be. Emily's mid-19th Century God was drowned in theological confusion, ministerial debacle and social disarray. Emily Dickinson readied herself before a confusing being who never made clear...