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Conservatives may be less put off by the portrayal of their Savior or the over-the-top story lines than by Daniel's progressive preaching. "If temptation corners us," he says in a sermon after Grace's arrest, "maybe we shouldn't beat ourselves up for giving in to it." His is an easy-listening, baby-boomer ministry, not so much fire and brimstone as Fire and Rain. Of course, Daniel is a priest in a liberal church; American Episcopalians have even ordained a gay bishop, to the consternation of conservative members and the church's overseas counterparts. (The church...
...reprimanded then President Jiang Zemin on live TV in Beijing for "the use of force" at Tiananmen Square. But Bush's gesture no doubt delighted his conservative base. After the service, he stood outside the church with his arm around the female minister who had just delivered a sermon on loving one's oppressor. Joined by Laura Bush and U.S. evangelist Luis Palau--and a smiling choir to boot--Bush insisted that the Chinese government "not fear Christians." The President, often portrayed abroad as an arrogant Texan bully, had found a more appealing niche: a sightseer with a higher purpose...
...historical errors it contains: Col. Beauregard talks about the “Confederate States” more than a decade before the Confederacy formed. Perhaps no one sees a Zorro movie for a history lesson, but it’s just as unlikely they see it for a political sermon. Likely, Zorro fans will still flock to this standard light-action fare. Judging by Campbell’s success with the Bond flick “Goldeneye,” he’s capable of pulling a crowd to see their favorite character, no matter how hackneyed the adventure...
...fronts: first, as a young and privileged Englishman in the dizzying boom-and bust-climate of Thatcherism; second, as a gay man at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. Such high-stakes political, moral, and social issues could easily overpower a less skillful writer, turning the novel into mere sermon or satire. But Hollinghurst and his fictitious alter-ego are far too smart for that.Instead, we meet a brilliant, insecure Oxford grad with an exacting, reverential, and eventually obsessive eye for beauty, whether found in the heights of a Gothic cathedral, the curves of his first lover...
...grass. Just beyond the park's walls, a peacock climbs the roof of a Burmese Buddhist monastery to watch the sunset. In the other corner, near a statue of the Buddha preaching to his first five disciples, visitors gather around a monk who starts reciting the master's first sermon. As you listen, it is as if 2,500 years have been rolled back and you are hearing the Buddha himself, talking of why there is so much suffering on earth and what can be done...