Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-time admirer of the Reverend Mortin Luther King, Jr., I attended the January 15 sermon by the Reverend Jesse Jackson. He preached to an overflow crowd of 1000 persons as the guest of the United Ministry at Harvard...
...Most of what his half hour address contained was worthy of being a memorial sermon. However, his attitude towards Harvard and his own predisposed opinions leave something to be desired...
Since I am an alumnus I feel Justified in saying that the Reverend Jackson, as a guest of Harvard, showed poor faste from the text of his prepared sermon (source: UPI dispatch 1/10/83 to castigate Harvard for its investments in South Africa. It would have been enough if, in one sentence he had simply deplored the existence of the investments. Instead, he indulged himself, in a three minute diatribe of shrill overkill...
...analyzing her results, Landers gave her usual cross between philosophy and sermon. "This says something very unflattering about men in this country," she said. "It says men are selfish. They want theirs." Yet she was quick to distribute the blame. "Some women need the message: loosen up, be sexier." Above all, Landers cited the so-called sexual revolution as the root of many of the problems. "Women are anxious," she said. "They're reading in Cosmopolitan that if they don't have five orgasms a night they're undersexed or freaks...
...Lutheran Church in America. Eventually the members demanded Roth's dismissal. When the synod decided to oust Roth and he refused to obey, it won a court order early this month requiring that he leave. Instead, Roth, 33, barricaded himself in the church and preached his usual Sunday sermon, telling the congregation of 75, "It is a sin to destroy people's lives. Christ would never have come out on the side of the corporations...