Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat Cornell, I think we can do it," he said. "We've been looking sharp in practice and team spirit is sky high. I've got an awful lot of confidence in our ability, and aside from needing more work on attack-midfield coordination, we'll be in top shape for Cornell...
Sermon & Song. In the pursuit of "relevancy," Negro churches in the North have been returning to the soulful spirit of the past in worship-and becoming more militant in political concern. Many congregations that had tried to imitate the sobriety of their white counterparts are again beginning to emphasize zeal and fervor in both sermon and song. And Negro pastors-although still a voice of reason in the ghetto-are getting tougher. One of Detroit's most militant black power leaders now is the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., who calls his Central United Church of Christ "the shrine...
...millions of white Americans, the televised services for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church marked their first opportunity to observe the soul and spirit of the black man's Christian faith. Compared with the austere and stately worship at most mainstream Protestant or Roman Catholic churches, the funeral service was almost unbearably emotional. The simple, old-fashioned hymns, sung with tearful intensity by the church choir, were pure "soul"; a succession of black-robed speakers praised the memory of Dr. King in fustian oratory rich with Biblical imagery. In effect...
...south as meetings in the plantation fields, where slaves bewailed their torment in song and preaching. Although barred from joining white churches, Negroes were visited by white evangelists, who instilled in them the fervor and faith of oldtime religion.* The Negro accepted the doctrines but brought to the spirit of worship an intensity arising from repression. Hymns reflected both the African origin of the Negro and the agony of his existence. Sermons emphasized the vision of beatitude in the promised land; the congregation-condemned to submission and silence elsewhere-was free here to give public vent to its yearnings...
...world; yet any church inevitably takes on cultural forms and thus looks backward into history. She concedes that the church as an institution is necessary; but the more it becomes a prisoner of tradition the less able it is to keep alive the prophetic spirit that gives it meaning. The ideal state of the church, she argues, is not a formalized organization of worshipers but a community, an event, a human happening. This means that Christianity must exist in a continual state of concern and self-renewal. "The church can retain its continuity only by not clinging to what...