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...sermon was heavy conservative politics. The minister, preaching some...
...point in his testimony, after a thirty-minute battle between the prosecution and the defendants as to the propriety of entering scripture as testimony, Joan Nicholson introduced into evidence Matthew 5:1-12, from Christ's Sermon on the Mount. This was after the government had objected to entering the Holy Bible as evidence, claiming it to be irrelevant. Judge Burke sustained the objection. The beatitudes were not ruled objectionable, however, and Father Berrigan slowly read through the ancient teachings of Christ. In the crowded courtroom, the old words took on new meaning to those who understood how much...
...summed up the whole overwhelming feeling of innocence which led most of Yale to act as it did. This book will not please many people; in fact, it will tend to infuriate almost anyone who reads it. To the conservative Yale alumnus, it offers a somewhat offensive sermon; to the undergraduate, it offers a patronizing attempt to explain 'youth culture'; to the black, it offers even more condescension. This is sad, because Hersey has set out with the best of intentions...
...Flip Wilson Show (NBC). Flip is black and cool, and the first night played as easily off David Frost as James Brown. He does not do quotable one-liners but routines, of which the standards include a sassy drag bit and his "Church of What's Happening Now" sermon...
...personal religious experience in 1946-which she speaks of only as her "baptism of the Holy Spirit"-inspired Kathryn to begin preaching regularly about the Holy Spirit. Healing came by accident, when a woman announced one night that she had been cured of a tumor during a previous Kuhlman sermon...