Word: sermonizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crowd loves it. By the time Aa Gym ("elder brother" Gym), finishes his hour-long sermon with a plangent Islamic hymn, scores of women and men are openly weeping, and the roar of applause continues long after the TV cameras have been switched off. When he plunges into a crowd after a performance, there are always eager hands thrust out reaching for him, some fans even bowing down and kissing the preacher's hand, whispering a name to be remembered in his prayers. And always there are scores of squealing teenage girls hovering on the sidelines...
...country where the best-known Islamic preachers are stolid men in their 60s who quote from the Koran in Arabic and confine their sermons to the mosque, Aa Gym is unique. The flamboyant 40-year-old spreads his message of self-control, personal morality, tolerance and faith with televangelistic theatrics. Although Islam is the granite base on which his message rests, Aa Gym's sermons tend to dwell on the practicalities of daily life rather than the hazy hereafter. His stock-in-trade includes greeting-card clichEs, self-help nostrums and pithy doses of advice on how to cope with...
...appreciate the column on my sermon “Patriotism Is Not Enough” by Jason L. Steorts ’01-’03 (Column, “Preaching Politics,” Oct. 28). It is not often that a sermon of mine or anyone else’s rates a full response, critical or otherwise, in “Cambridge’s Only Breakfast Table Daily.” I am grateful. Clearly we disagree—not simply on political philosophy, but on the nature of a sermon and the responsibility...
...would rather not hear, as well as to say things with which others will not agree. Steorts is free to take issue with my views, but to suggest that they are inappropriate because they differ with his own is in fact to miss the whole point of the sermon: religious people who take both their faith and their citizenship seriously live in a not-easily resolved tension where patriotism neither trumps faith nor is to be confused with it. The conversation out of that tension is what is required and is so profoundly lacking in this present crisis. It?...
Second, this isn’t about politics. Had Gomes delivered a rousing sermon about the dangers of nuclear proliferation and of Iraq’s ties to terrorism, citing the Bible to support his position, I would find it just as inappropriate...