Word: sermonizings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus became Latin America's first married clergy under a 1967 authorization by Paul reviving the ancient institution of the diaconate. In a touch of ecumenism, three Protestants, including a Bavarian Lutheran bishop, and a local Anglican priest took part in a Mass. The Lutheran preached the sermon, and the Anglican publicly criticized the lack of religious freedom in Colombia before the Catholic audience...
...themselves, who had only three weeks of practice before taking on pro football's perennial world champions. Morale in the All-Star camp was so low-most of the rookies would rather have been off training with their own pro clubs-that Coach Norm Van Brocklin delivered a sermon. "I told them it was an honor to be picked among the top 50 college players of last season," said Van Brocklin. "And I told them that playing in this game was part of being...
...sermon apparently sank in. The Packers won, but it took a superlative performance by Quarterback Bart Starr, who completed 17 out of 23 passes for 288 yds. and three touchdowns, before Green Bay could retire with a 34-17 victory over the strongest, stubbornest batch of All-Stars in years...
Person-to-person contact at the average American church service is almost as rare as it is in a movie audience. Parishioners begin to nod drowsily as the minister begins the sermon; collective prayer and singing masks the reality that most worshipers are atomistically locked in their own private thoughts. Worried about this failure to interact, a few avant-garde theologians are experimenting with new, nonverbal techniques as potential ways of restoring some sense of community in worship. A striking example of this trend took place at the recent assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden, where...
...hand on a shoulder, even an embrace." After 30 seconds they were to tell each neighbor in the circle "what they honestly admire, respect and perhaps even love in him." McGaw described the touch-and-tell, which was interspersed with appropriate Bible readings, as "a different form of sermon...