Word: sermonizer
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...example, the article this year that, until the occupation, stirred the most controversy among readers was a short sermon by John Kenneth Galbraith on the need for restructuring at Harvard. ("The experience of Columbia is there for all to read.") More scandalous was a December 2 cover reproducing the Truc poster of a bare-assed lady milking a unicorn. (One reader suggested an apt place for the Harvard-Yale game scores.) Other articles have been about the international student movement and Dr. Timothy Leary. One issue included an almost complete reprint of the Wilson Report...
Whatever became of the death of God? Three years ago it was the most fiercely debated issue in American theology (TIME cover, April 8, 1966). Scholarly journals were thick with discussions of it. No sermon topic was more popular; pulpits rang with denunciations from righteous clergymen. Today, one of the chief apostles of the movement, Thomas Altizer, is quietly teaching English on Long Island. The journals and sermons have turned to other themes. Was it just a passing theological fad? A small idea blown out of proportion by pulpit and press? Or a real cri de coeur, saying something valid...
Over a year ago (while minister of the Old Ship Church in Hingham, Massachusetts) I predicted, via a sermon, that Harvard would riot precisely because the administration would not, or could not listen to what many students were saying...
...course the best descriptions of transcendent states is not necessarily either contemporary or western. D. T. SUZUKI's essays on Satori, the poetry of VEDANTA, the Bhagavad Gita, CHRIST's Sermon on the Mount, all put into word what is ultimately wordless, ineffable, breathtaking, transcendent, God-knowing...
...some kind of religious mania that caused him to wander around the countryside seeking an audience. His conduct in church was most amazing. Entering a pew, he would take off his shoes and stockings, then empty his pockets on the pew beside him and listen most attentively to the sermon. If anything the preacher said appealed to him, he would let out a shrill whistle that was heard all over the church. "England," writes Santayana, "is still the paradise of eccentricity, heresy, anomalies and humours...