Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treason of the United States" and the "hopeless hysteria of England," singling out President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as "mediocre" and "short of stature." On the Sunday just before Pope John Paul II was due to arrive in Argentina, Archbishop Antonio Quarracino of Avellaneda delivered a sermon that smacked of spiritual oneupmanship. "The Pope visited England as a duty ... He comes to us because of love...
...activists, speaking at Harvard on the topic of peace in an age of nuclear weapons build-up. The religious community at Harvard was ready for Graham, and undergraduates from Christian fellowships on campus became involved in Graham's mission, serving as counselors to people attending Graham's sermon at the Memorial Church...
...spent an hour in the back seat of the car. I remember being taken home, and helped up the E-entry steps. Miraculously, I woke up at 10, took a shower, and went to church. I was still drunk. It wasn't until the middle of the sermon that I sobered up...I was able to control myself; I wasn't wobbling. It's just like the buzz any priest would have if he chugged a glass of communion wine...
...appointment to appointment through Moscow's wide streets in a black, chauffeur-driven Chaika limousine, Graham saw only what his hosts wanted him to see. Moreover, he seemed to say only what his hosts wanted him to say. At the end of a hectic schedule, which included a sermon at the only Baptist church in Moscow, a homily at the opulent Yelokhovsky Orthodox Cathedral, a speech at the conference (held in Moscow's World Trade Center) and a meeting with the six Pentecostalists taking refuge at the U.S. embassy, Graham earnestly commented that he had seen no evidence...
During his sermon at the Baptist church, Graham told a well-dressed congregation that the Bible calls on citizens "to obey the authorities," and that Jesus gave "man the power to be a better worker, a loyal citizen." One woman in the congregation disobeyed; she draped a banner over the balcony that read, "We have more than 150 prisoners for the work of the gospel." She was quietly escorted out of the church by several men in plain clothes and was presumably detained for questioning. Asked his opinion of the incident later, Graham replied: "We detain people in the United...