Word: sermonizer
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...Pastor Bartel read the service, his nimble hands and massive, tired old face came alive. He took his sermon text from...
...Sykes point is on the preachy side -and his allegorical Mollie is a bit of a slur on America, not to mention American womanhood. But then, Sykes is really talking to intellectuals who have long found Mollie vulgar anyhow, and who, without the caricature, might reject the sermon out of hand...
...Sunday morning sermon, Mather noted that "in no country where the Protestant Church has been predominant, has Communism been able to take over the government." The main theme of his talk, completely changed from the one he had planned on "Religion in Higher Education" for the banquet, concerned the close relationship between Judaic-Christian development and the origins of democracy...
...Throngs of the faithful go to the scene of presumed visions and pretended miracles and desert the church, the sacraments and the sermon...
...this scene and with these words, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, biggest postwar noise in France, declares the text of Volume III in his long existential sermon, the four-volume novel called The Roads to Freedom. Sartre's richly rewarded purpose is to trace the stink of defeat to its sources in the French soul and, before he is through, to demonstrate the uses of existentialism as a spiritual disinfectant-or at least deodorant...