Word: sermonses
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·WELFARE & LABOR. The time is long past when the churches saw the lot of the workingman in terms of charity or when labor unions were denounced as Communist from the pulpit. As early as 1910, the Presbyterians set up the Labor Temple in New York City as "a special...
Puck & Pan. He arrived at Cambridge with a scholarship at Trinity. "A shy prig," is his own description; too shy to ask where the toilets were, he walked to the one at the railway station. At Trinity, dons were gargling grace in two alternate systems of Latin pronunciation; the junior...
Armed with his new-found under standing of faith, Luther began to criticize the theology of indulgences in his sermons. His displeasure noticeably increased during 1517, when the Dominican John Tetzel was preaching throughout much of Germany on behalf of a papal fund-raising campaign to complete St. Peter'...
"Many writers are far, far more relevant than Scripture" to contemporary man, says the Rev. Richard McFarland of Washington's Dumbarton Methodist Church. Accordingly, he is as likely to use a passage from Camus or Albee as a parable to bring home to his congregation an aspect of God...
Some ministers occasionally substitute movies, plays or poetry readings for conventional sermons. St. Clement's Episcopal Church, on the fringe of Broadway in Manhattan, frequently presents dramatic readings and even short playlets in place of sermons by its vicar, Father Eugene A. Monick. One Sunday, parishioners acted out a...