Word: sermonizings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than dead, who do not mind seeing small nations gobbled up. They would almost rather be anything but responsible. What do they know, these bearded oafs who listen to the strumming of lugubrious guitars? To be loved is not the end of greatness."--Dr. George R. Davis, in a sermon Oct. 22 at a church service attended by President Johnson...
Merry Christmas. Working under Durham as pastor of the church is the Rev. Cecil Williams, 38, a dynamic, Texas-born Negro with a flair for imaginative preaching. At a jazz worship service this month attended by several hippies, Williams began his sermon by wishing everyone "Merry Christmas," explaining, "It's Christmas today because life comes as a gift." Picking up a dazzlingly colored paper sack, which he called "my psychedelic bag," he pulled out of it a framed portrait of himself, hung it around his neck and announced: "I'm too concerned with myself. So I carry...
Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear...
...skepticism has made important converts. Ohio's Senator Frank Lausche, a hard-beaked hawk last year, recently suggested an unconditional halt to the bombing of North Viet Nam in order to try to bring Hanoi to the conference table. Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, in a sermon that was all the more startling because of his oft-repeated anti-Communist views, declared: "May I speak only as a Christian and humbly ask the President to announce, 'In the name of God, who bade us love our neighbor with our whole heart and soul and mind...
Precisely because the spoken word is so important to the Arabs, government censors at first felt compelled to red-pencil portions of the regular Friday sermon from the silver-domed El Aksa mosque. In protest, most of the mosque's weekly crowd of 15,000 worshipers stayed away, and 24 leading professional, political and religious Arabs of Jerusalem called for a cam paign of noncooperation with Israel. Alarmed, the Israelis canceled censorship of the sermons-and transferred responsibility for dealing with the Moslem religious community from the Israeli Ministry of Religion to Dayan's Defense Ministry, which...