Word: sermonizers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...back on the streets in New York City / In a soup queue / A dope fiend / A slave / Then prison / Then the madhouse / Then the grave.” It’s a fitting end for any character in a Bad Seeds song, but Cave spouts this particular sermon with the vigor of a revivalist preacher. “I can hear chants and incantations and some guy’s mentioning me in his prayers / Well, I don’t know what it is but there’s definitely something going on upstairs...
...phrase “audacity of hope”—the title of Barack Obama’s best-selling book—comes, as NBC’s Tim Russert reminded viewers of Tuesday’s Democratic debate, from a sermon by the Senator’s pastor back home, an alleged anti-Semite with an admiration for Louis Farrakhan. And it is a phrase that starry-eyed Obama supporters like to think describes their mission...
Harvard’s Black Students Association President Sarah O. Lockridge-Steckel ’09, who read from King’s “A Christmas Sermon on Peace,” said she was trying to convey a point similar to Walker?...
...familiarity of the stories that “Children of Eden” depicted made it difficult to build suspense, but the production was far more interesting than any sermon and provided an insightful commentary on the love between parents and children. The orchestra (conducted by Samuel L. Linden ’10) perfectly set the mood for each scene, and each number seemed sewn into the actors’ spectacular movements...
...Bell went to video. Attempting a sermon for a standard 21-min. TV slot, he and three friends came up with just 10 strong minutes. These morphed into the Nooma--a 12-min., high-end short melding Bell's spoken narrative and a seemingly unrelated visual into a compelling homily. The format is unique in the world of Evangelicalism or, really, anywhere. If the father of a young child can watch Rain, a divine-love parable featuring Bell and his son during a storm, and not fight tears, he is Christopher Hitchens. The 18 Nooma DVDs have sold 1.2 million...