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The first one is a paean to adultery, and a clever rationalization of the violability of the seventh commandment. It's not much else, but the sermons are supposed to get better as the month goes on. The second begins with an examination of some New Testament miracles and unfolds...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A Keyboard Confessional | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

Marshfield's sermons (he writes one each Sunday of his stay) are slypastich es of biblical scholarship and sophistry.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ring Around the Collar | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

We must endeavor, with God's help, not to give in. If faith cannot "work" even for us, how could the sermons our husbands preach from the Holy Scriptures be of any hope to our flock?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 28, 1974 | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

At Good Shepherd, he derided the complacent laity as "spiritual winte trash" who merely dropped by church to fill up at God's "gas pump." Punctuating ins sermons with words like damn, hell and bitch, he thundered against "gum-ball theology" and the "colonel syndrome" he found in both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Closing a Clerical Show | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

In 1816, a Scottish parson and part-time inventor named Robert Stirling patented a new engine for pumping water out of mines and quarries. It could run on almost any fuel, he boasted-including whisky. Indeed the parson had such faith in his engine that he often cut his Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Stirling Performance | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

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