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He reads widely--Peter Gomes' sermons, The New Yorker, books by his son James on Chinese literature--follows current events intently and spends time with Anne, his wife of almost 65 years.
Two days later, I happened to meet Frederick Buechner. Buechner, now 74 years old, is one of the few Presbyterian ministers in the world who has a cult following. He is an author of luminous novels, memoirs, sermons. I have long been a member of the Buechner cult. When we...
To be sure, the mood is leavened by the jaunty opener, "Lincoln Town," and the gleeful abandon of "Gone" (Gone/like a Nixon file/gone, gone away/Gone/like my landlord's smile/gone, gone away"), but the overall atmosphere is one of resigned deconstruction. These are almost anti-sermons; there's a kind of...
During the first Baccalaureate sermons, monastic devotion was expected of a candidate while he "sat with bowed head over which his hood was drawn, a picture of abject humility and utter embarrassment," according to Cambridge's 13th-century statutes as quoted by Gomes in the Baccalaureate service's program.
From the moment he took the stand last week, Edwards answered yes-or-no questions with unsolicited sermons. It's like "Spartacus to the Romans," complained prosecutor Jim Letten. U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola admonished, "This is not a theater." Of course it was. Edwards told of high-stakes poker...