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...years of his life in Shantung, the home province of Confucius. From his parents, he absorbed the Calvinist faith and the love of his homeland that were to influence his whole life. Before he was six, he stood on a stool in the mission compound and preached a sermon to the assembled amahs and their children. He later said that he could never remember a time when he did not know all about the U.S. Constitution...
...Sermon on the Mount says: 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' It does not say blessed are the peacelovers. There's nothing special about a peacelover. 'Blessed are the peacemakers'-those who work for it, by every means, by diplomacy, by the use of force, but especially by their work to build institutions of justice and habits of reliance on law both within nations and between them...
These days, a sermon is likely to start off with anything from a reference to Peanuts to a Bob Dylan song to a passage from Hugh Hefner's interminable Playboy philosophy. Dr. C. Edward Gammon of Fairlington Presbyterian Church in Virginia, for example, intends to base his Easter sermon on Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Gammon's point: George and Martha's play-long dialogue about their nonexistent son suggests contemporary man's inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. The Rev. A. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide...
...Anson Mount, the magazine's football editor, appointed him six months ago to head a new religion department. People who saw this move as a rather amusing put-on overestimate Hefner's sense of humor. It was all very serious, and frivolous staffers were discouraged from making jokes involving "sermon" and "Mount." Recalls the new religion editor: "I found myself over my head with things like personhood, demythologizing, Bonhoeffer. So I went to Hefner and said, 'Man, I've got to go off to school and learn some of this.' " Hef sent him to the University of the South...
...unsafe. At first, the two congregations took turns using the Methodist church for worship. Last summer they began holding joint services, and now the ministers of the two congregations share the responsibilities of presiding at Sunday worship. On a recent Sunday, for example, Presbyterian Logan Barnes preached the sermon while Methodist Minister Travis Kendall led the prayers. Kendall believes that this kind of "yoked congregation" is increasingly necessary for "sheer survival," makes possible "so many things that we couldn't offer separately. What we are doing now is the forerunner of what will happen all over the country...