Word: sermonizer
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...Christ. Zeoli was holding a service at a Washington-area Marriott hotel for the Dallas Cowboys, in town to play the Redskins. Ford, who was then the Republican minority leader in Congress, came to hear his friend preach on "God's Game Plan." Ford was especially moved by the sermon and hung around to talk with Zeoli privately afterward about Christ and forgiveness and what it meant. The inquiry felt real and raw; was that the moment Ford committed himself to Christ? "It's hard to say when a man does that," Zeoli says plainly. "That's a God thing...
...shiny parkas, jean jackets and sneakers, they autographed with magic markers in the Italian-flag colors of green and red: Riccardo, Jacopo, Eva, Alessia, all bid goodbye with messages of "Ciao!" and "Con affetto." Pastor Gioele Fuligno, a Baptist minister, led the funeral rites with a fire-and-brimstone sermon that stunned the Catholic crowd. Strangely, though, it all seemed to make sense to the 100 or so townsfolk in attendance. All of it except for that Texas sentence handed down to a man who never stopped insisting he was innocent...
Australia's most senior Islamic cleric, Sheik Taj Al-Din Hilali, was justly slapped down by the community after he described women who did not wear the hijab (headdress) as "uncovered meat." In a Ramadan sermon in September, the mufti also told his flock that women, by the way they dress and act, were to blame for sexual assault. When the comments were reported in late October by the Australian newspaper, the nation's leaders condemned Hilali. After he apologized, claiming his words were taken out of context, Hilali fell into the arms of his physicians. He rode...
Pastor Ted has inadvertently provided us with a sermon far more profound and honest than any of his others: it is no one’s place to oppress people’s lives by denying them the opportunity to be happy and live as they truly are. It is no man’s place to play...
...Gentry ’07, who doubled as Reverend D and Hester’s youngest son Baby, was the most engaging member of the cast. At Nov. 10 performance, during his “I have fallen and I can’t get up” sermon, members of the audience could even be heard facetiously clapping, and chanting “Amen” in response to his booming voice. Renée A. Ragin ’10 who played both the welfare social worker and Hester’s oldest daughter, Bully, successfully portrayed...