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Tobin’s sermon two weeks ago tail-ended International Day of Climate Action, during which Christ Church rang their bells 350 times as part of a worldwide movement to draw political attention to climate change...
More unsettling to this young writer was the dismissive tone of the Democrats’ official response to keynote speaker and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s speech. After Governor Pawlenty delivered a two-part sermon to the choir on the perils of health-care reform and the importance of retaining certain traditional Judeo-Christian morals, Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan offered the following statement: “It looks like Tim Pawlenty isn’t even going to offer the pretense of being anything but an extreme right-wing radical anymore. At least it?...
...your second term? About his personal corruption? These are after all internal issues for Iran and not so important. I did not speak in the election process about him. I spoke about some of his children. Now whether an individual appears or does not appear at a Friday prayer sermon is not considered a very important act, it actually happens on a normal basis. I heard that it was his own personal decision...
...Sunday morning in Roxboro. The streets are empty, but the church parking lots are full: it seems as if every one of the town's 8,876 residents is at services. At the United Methodist Church on North Main Street, Pastor T.R. Miller is delivering a sermon titled "Rags to Riches to Rags." At the largely African-American First Baptist Church on the other side of Durham Road, the choir is singing "I'd rather have Jesus than silver and gold" so loudly you can hear it in the parking...
...second-to-last row of Roxboro Baptist, the Whitfields try to listen to the sermon, but Brian's mind wanders. Last autumn, Debbie warned Brian that the ax might fall. She grew up in Flint, Mich., the granddaughter of a man who participated in the landmark 1936-37 sit-down strike at GM's Fisher body plant that established industrial-labor-organizing rights in America. But she saw her father and uncle go down with the automakers. "When they shut down the Fisher plant [in 1987], everything within a two-to-three-block radius closed down: bars, restaurants, gas stations...