Word: stillnesses
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Protons, which along with neutrons form the nuclei of atoms-and hence the bulk of the matter in the universe -have long been regarded as permanent fixtures on the subatomic scene, members of a family of heavy particles known as baryons. If they happened to collide with still other subatomic particles, one thing was certain: the number of baryons coming out of such interactions was always the same as the number going in. To put it in the language of physics, there was conservation of baryon number...
...important, but rather a kind of spiritual hors d'oeuvre before the Eucharist. Otherwise, as Catholic Columnist Rick Casey explains, priests might become mere "performers" like Protestants, and "upstage the Eucharist." In Protestantism, however, the sermon is virtually raised to sacrament. Even if all believers are "priests," they still need expert guidance. Said Theologian Karl Earth, "Through the activity of preaching, God himself speaks." As a result, lackluster sermons strike at the heart of Protestant religion...
...formidable challenge. Churchgoers today are "theologically illiterate," says Lutheran Minister Richard John Neuhaus in Freedom for the Ministry. A lot of things have to be explained rather than taken for granted. (A recent Christianity Today-Gallup survey showed that while 84% of Americans believe the Ten Commandments are still valid, more than half could not even identify five of them.) Preachers have less time in which to do the explaining too. Says Donald Macleod, who has taught homiletics at Princeton for 32 years: "The minds of listeners are geared to TV and the 30-second commercial...
...pride, not to mention some shortage of charity and common sense. The following seven stars of the pulpit selected by TIME'S editors and correspondents across the country are at the very least proof that many splendid practitioners of the ancient art of preaching are still at large in the U.S. Only preachers who nurture a congregation week by week, year after year, were considered, thus ruling out famous evangelists like Billy Graham and TV personalities. Those chosen had to convey, along with solid content and skillful delivery, the sense of over whelming conviction that...
David H.C. Read, 69, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York. "The worst sin is dullness," says Read, a transplanted Scotsman and British army chaplain who is never dull. Still, he disapproves of the whole idea of "princes of the pulpit," and he deplores the fact that people go to church to hear a celebrated preacher rather than to worship. But if there is any one prince of the Protestant pulpit these days, it is Read...