Word: tells
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...result is an appeal that permeates Christian and secular worlds both. Gomes' sermons compel his audience to capitalise on their talents--even if they are unsure about what those talents are. As Gomes likes to tell his undergraduates, "You all have a future. You just don't know what it is yet." The contagion of his passion is unavoidable; we emerge from his sermons feeling inspired, not just about spirituality, but, remarkably, about who we are. Gomes knows that "words influence. Words are power." In his new books Sermons, he concentrates the power of 40 his most compelling homilies...
There is one story Yager will tell you every last detail of, though, and it is the one that explains why this doctor's wife, who used to spend her Southern days with lady friends at teatime socials, is out here risking lawsuits and maybe even jail time...
Think of Nory as Charlie Brown with a richer imagination and keener insights. On visual and verbal communication, for example: "Stained glass was invented to tell stories in pictures because so few people could read back then. Now we have to read twenty-five books just to figure out what the stained glass is saying, so it's the opposite of before, when you didn't read but just looked around and thought...
...emigrate to America. Hedwig wound up in a trailer park in Kansas, where her G.I. abandoned her. Then she met Tommy Gnosis, a rock singer whom she helped turn into a superstar, but not before he had dumped her too. Now all that's left for Hedwig is to tell her life story in a confessional cabaret show, which has become off-Broadway's latest cult hit, Hedwig and the Angry Inch...
...year A.D. 2000 has long hovered in an imagined sky like a distant, luminous sign. Generations have used it as a target for their dreams, hopes and fears. Since prophecies usually tell us more about the past than the future, how the millennium was envisioned--and, in a sense, invented--during earlier eras says a great deal about the successive stages of Western history, about the religious as well as secular faith of our ancestors--in short, about how we came to be what...