Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it came to religious matters, Muslims were instructed to put aside their political differences for the sake of Islamic unity. While politics was not a taboo subject for a sermon, it should always be subservient to religion inside the mosque. And any religious factionalization on account of individual political beliefs was condemned in the final sermon of the prophet...
...ATTENDED a Friday service at the Harvard mosque in the basement of Memorial Hall before this semester began. The Khatib, the person giving the sermon, audaciously declared that the current Allied anxiety over Iraq's developing nuclear capabilities is, in actuality, a concern over the Islamic renaissance. The true objective of the Gulf war, he continued, was not the liberation of Kuwait, but a strategic check of increasing Islamic dominance...
...Thomas Episcopal Church in West Hollywood, Marianne Williamson steps to the pulpit before a packed house. But she is no ordinary minister: the church has been rented and the message is decidedly New Age nondenominational. Impeccably groomed and clad in designer clothes, the slender brunet launches into a sermon that mixes Christian exhortations, meditative slogans and psychotherapeutic advice: "Align your mind with God and watch miracles happen." Then she saunters down the nave to "share" with the audience. "Anytime you think someone owes you something, it's a limit on your happiness," she counsels a distressed young woman. Bowing...
Kessler is one member of the '60s generation who never lost the naive conviction that an individual can change the world. Deceptive food labeling troubles him because it is dishonest and unfair. And, without warning, he can break into a mini-sermon about the FDA: "There are 8,000 wonderful people here. They came here because they wanted to protect and promote the public health, and my job is to let them do their...
...Islamic revolutionary are impeccable. Yet he has consistently shown political acumen and moderation throughout his government career. Several times he won popular elections to posts, and in Friday prayers his easy manner is refreshing to a country tired of harangues from harsh-tongued mullahs. In his famous November sermon, for example, Rafsanjani argued that young people were being asked to deny the "sexual urge" for too long, and that "temporary marriage," a Shi'ite institution endorsing sexual liaisons for fixed periods of time, ought to be more widely accepted. Says a Western diplomat: "His main weapon is that he speaks...