Word: sermonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India for a month's preaching, Evangelist Billy Graham, in Louisville for a laymen's conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, got a phone call from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Summoned to Washington, he reported, to confer with Dulles and President Eisenhower, Graham canceled a sermon ("Our Christian Heritage"), hopped a plane that evening. Next day, although he missed seeing Ike, Religious Diplomat Graham emerged from an hour's chat with Dulles in the Secretary's Georgetown home. He had got a solid briefing on India, told waiting newsmen that Foster Dulles has repeatedly...
This, and not the hypo of sensationalism, is the point of the movie, and the point strikes deep. The picture is sometimes a penny dreadful, because the scriptwriters have seldom consulted their hearts as carefully as they have calculated their effects; and sometimes it is an oldfashioned, hellfire sermon against moral indolence. At its best, though, the story lays bare the naked truth of human bondage, and this truth shines like a sword...
...churchmen, less sensitive about secularism, took a dim view of Vicar Lloyd's sermon. The Church of England Newspaper called it "baby talk." If the disestablishmentarians had their way, it warned, the position of evangelicals and liberals in the church would soon be "intolerable." Last week the Roman Catholic Herald surprised many a reader by siding with the low churchmen: "The tradition of Establishment has proved to be a powerful spiritual and moral factor in the country . . . Bound up with the Christian throne, the Church of England has . . . been a growing rather than a declining Christian influence . . . We find...
...possible, he spends an hour or two on his sermon (he devotes his yearly six-week vacation to blocking out his sermons for a year in advance), then drives to the church in his 1953 Mercury, for a round of meetings, reports, pastoral counseling...
...country preachers still thunder against the evils of rum, Romanism and romance on the dance floor, and even sophisticated city preachers go in for melodramatics; when Joseph Stalin died, Pastor Wayne Dehoney of Birmingham's Central Park Baptist Church hauled a coffin into his sanctuary and preached a sermon on the evils of dictatorship (in newspaper ads he labeled it "Stalin's funeral oration"). But, on the whole, it is the new facts rather than the old, familiar figures of Southern Baptism that are important...