Word: sermonizer
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...spokesman for the National Council of Churches. "But this weariness is reflected in such statements as, 'Let's get this war over with, even if it means major escalation.' " Said United Church of Christ Pastor William Bruce MacKenzie in Denver: "I haven't preached a sermon on Viet Nam for a long time. You get discouraged. You've said everything you had to say before, and things haven't changed...
...Archbishop Helder. Pessõa Cámara, 57, the church fought back. Four months ago, Cãmara refused to officiate at a special Mass celebrating the second anniversary of the coup because local army headquarters had demanded that he submit his sermon to censorship. In July, Dom Helder led 16 Northeastern bishops in a statement criticizing the regime for "injustices committed against the workers, whether they concern questions of salaries, pressure against class organization, or the innumerable transgressions of labor laws...
Child bored from sermon...
...from parts unknown. His evangelistic style is homiletic, catechetical and religious in tone (the promise of an unprecedented revelation to the merely human race has the strangest effect on the nonbeliever). At any rate, the mixture of science and religion is curious, as if Billy Sunday had undertaken a sermon on the subject of the binomial theorem...
...congregation to hire a Negro organist, his car was burned and he found a hangman's noose on his mail box. More frequently, though, opposition takes a financial form. Outspoken preachers on civil rights have seen their collection-plate income drop as much as 50% after a sermon on integration; last month All Souls Church in Washington, D.C., drastically cut its annual contribution to the city's Episcopal Diocese as a protest against Suffragan Bishop Paul Moore Jr.'s advocacy of .open housing and fair employment practices...