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Preserving Freedom. The Disciples can easily talk union because they combine a maximum of spiritual freedom with a minimum of churchly trappings. Their congregations practice baptism by immersion, elect their own pastors, allow laymen (and women) to conduct the austere Sunday services, which may omit a sermon but never omit Communion. The Disciples have no confession or creed, and the divinity of Christ is their sole rule of faith. "Ever since the beginning, we've been scared to death that we'd arrive at a theology everyone would have to subscribe to," says Industrialist J. Irwin Miller...
...cover portraying Governor Wallace and a bomb-mutilated "Good Shepherd" window in a Birmingham church is a powerful sermon...
...first official sermon as Preacher to the University, the Rev. Charies P. Price '41 remarked on the curiosity of an Episcopalian becoming preacher "in this citadel of Puritanism, Unitarianism, and free thought...
...Godly Sermon." Yet the Anglican Communion is more a byproduct of history than a purposeful propagation. Unlike Methodists or Roman Catholics, the clergy of England's post-Reformation church at first followed the empire around the world not primarily to win the heathen for Christ but to provide spiritual solace for the colonial conquerors. One of the earliest recorded appearances of English ways of worship overseas, in August 1578, was on solitary Baffin Island, where one Master Wolfall "preached a godly sermon, which being ended, he celebrated also a Communion upon the land" for the sole benefit of Explorer...
...Hugh Montefiore. One of England's bestsellers of the year (280,000 copies) is Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God, which attacks the "religiousness" of Christianity and rejects the idea of God as a transcendent Being somewhere "out there" in space. Rectors who promise a sermon on Honest to God can be almost certain that they will have a standing-room-only congregation. "I've been a priest for over 50 years," says Dr. J.W.C. Wand, former Bishop of London, "and never has it been easier to talk theology from the pulpit...