Word: sermonizer
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Stopfel was Lind's good friend, she told her flock in a powerful, high-risk sermon; "It could have been me." She recounted the rabbi's challenge. Here was her answer. "I am not coming out because I want to flaunt my sexuality, [but] because the Gospel demands it," she said. "To exist in a homophobic society in fear and collaboration...causes moral insanity and moral death. To state clearly who one is and who one loves is to claim life in the midst of death...
...Ayatullah Ali Khamenei--successor to Khomeini--has warned religious militants against thuggery and publicly praises Khatami--as if cautioning security forces against a coup. But Khamenei rejects any vision of freedom that threatens Islam's position in power. "As long as I live," he warned in a recent Friday sermon, "I will not allow anybody to lead the country toward secularism...
President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who stated his religion as "universal" and commended Islam, gave the sermon from 1910 until 1933 but still prefaced each speech with a Biblical verse...
...Baccalaureate sermon then became called the Baccalaureate address, dropping the last vestiges of Puritan preaching...
...Baccalaureate service is the second oldest part of the graduation rites, and is traditionally a church service in which the reverend of Memorial Church delivers a parting sermon to the near-graduates...