Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic effect skates disturbingly close to pulpit gimmickry. In Birmingham, Mich., for example, the Rev. Robert Marshall of the community's Unitarian church once passed out lumps of clay and cardboard to his congregation, told them to sculpt themselves. His point: to make them meditate on the theme "What...
Disposable Products. Ministers also use some surprising visual aids to get across a point in contemporary terms. One Sunday, the Rev. Lon Chestnut, Methodist chaplain at Emory University, projected illustrations from Playboy onto the chapel wall. His theme was that Christians should not treat other human beings in the Playboy manner, as disposable consumer products. On another Sunday, the congregation of Cincinnati's St. Timothy's Episcopal Church was startled when one parishioner got up to leave in the middle of the sermon by the Rev. John Wesley Bishop. "Why are you leaving?" Bishop asked. "Because...
Inevitably, some conservative laymen may grumble at such unconventional approaches. But in a recent issue of Christian Advocate magazine, Stanley Rowland Jr., editorial director of the United Presbyterian Church, argues that the search for new themes and forms is no different from what Jesus did in "interpreting afresh the faith" for his generation. Whether churchgoers like it or not, he says, clergymen are attempting to translate "information about the Word into the lifetimes of the people." Any theme or technique that makes God's message a living reality, Rowland suggests, has a valid place in the preaching...
...great many writers nowadays are hung up on the psychological-fantasy novel. Their common theme is not so much alienated man as the phenomenon of what might be called the polyperse-the several conflicting personalities in a single character. Unafraid, Virginia Woolf was one of the pioneers of the form; in Orlando, the hero starts out as a man and winds up as woman. More recently, lohn Fowles's The Magus dealt with a girl who was possibly 1) a ghost, 2) a nymphomaniac, 3) an actress, or 4) twins. Peter Israel's The Hen's House...
...parody of spy thrillers and introduces its readers to debonair Gewinner Pearce, a homosexual Superman. Of the remaining four stories, the best is Man Bring This Up Road, a chilling confrontation between a hickory-hard, female old moneybags and an aging, importunate beach boy-which provided the theme for Williams' 1963 flop play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore...