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Epps told of meeting King for the first time at a sermon when Epps was in college...
...artisans. He did not preach salvation from sin through sacrifice; he never said "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God"; neither did he say "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." For that matter, he probably never delivered the Sermon on the Mount. As for the question posed to Peter and the disciples, Jesus never asked it. And he never cured any diseases. As for the other miracles? No loaves and fishes, no water into wine, no raising of Lazarus. And certainly no resurrection. What happened to his body then? Most...
Actually, the President's own rhetoric portrays gun control only as a necessary first step in a far more arduous journey. In his speeches last week, and especially in his powerful sermon in a Memphis, Tennessee, church last month, Clinton has cast violence as a moral crisis, with its roots in the breakdown of family and community. Every initiative, from welfare reform to health care to job training, becomes a means of fighting crime. "There are a lot of things we have to do in this country to get the violence under control that relate to rebuilding our communities...
...while America was counting votes and taking polls, Bill Clinton snuck away and came closer than he ever had before to grasping the mantle of his political patron saint, John F. Kennedy. Standing at the pulpit from which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last sermon, Clinton spoke courageously and passionately about the crime and violence that plague America's black urban youth...
...obsessions of the oldest films: emotion conveyed without words, and the image of a man watching a woman. What is not traditional is that here the women are in charge, as heroine, star and director. The result is that what might have been art-house voyeurism becomes a wise sermon on the various motives for sex. Ada has sex with Stewart out of duty or pity. (The movie sees Stewart's pathos as well: as he watches lovers through a window, a dog licks his hand in a cruel parody of the affection he craves.) The sexual dance with Baines...