Word: sermonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revivalist Billy Graham and the Devil give each other no peace. Last week Graham reported on the kind of satanic guerrilla warfare that goes on behind the scenes in response to Billy's frontal attack. He was dictating some notes for a sermon on the Devil, he said, when his dictating machine caught fire. Martin Luther threw his inkpot; Billy finished the notes in longhand and hurried to Madison Square Garden-only to find that he had lost them on the way. "Something like this always happens when I preach on the Devil," said Billy. "There...
...Sheen had begun his electronic tenure opposite Milton Berle and was still going strong last season against I Love Lucy, Revivalist Graham returned to the TV pulpit this weekend more streamlined and confident than ever. Eschewing the hell-fire-and-brimstone theatrics of his historical predecessors, he pitched his sermon just as he had for 24 consecutive nights to huge Garden crowds. He also added to his TV experience this week with Sunday appearances on Meet the Press and Steve Allen's Sunday night vaudeville hour. Explained Billy: "There is no difficulty being an evangelist and using...
This translation will be more radical than a Revised Standard Version or a competent sermon explaining Scripture. It will have to be the translation which Paul accomplished when he gave Jesus to the non-Judaic world, or the transla tion accomplished by Aquinas, who incorporated the systematic requirements of medieval metaphysics. It will, perhaps, be a translation as radical as that given Judaism by Jesus, or the Veda by Gotama...
Pusey began his address by pointing out the difficulty in making a traditional Baccalaureate sermon "because there has been no commonly understood or universally accepted vocabulary in which such an address can be made...
...Graham hopefully, he would like to launch a 26-week religious TV extravaganza. Its sponsors would have to be content with institutional plugs, no hard sell. Though one of the hottest salesmen ever to push intangibles, Billy admits: "It would be difficult to break into the middle of a sermon and start selling tooth paste." But Orator Graham may have difficulty convincing a sponsor to accept him on those terms...