Stepping into the church, listening to the French sermon, singing theFrench hymns, he is moved emotionally but also imaginatively towards his exiledancestors until he thinks he sees“his pious emigrated forefather”(R II, 380) hand-ing the hymnbook over to him:It almost seemed to him as if...
This is a list of the best films to be chosen by critics and fans as the winner of the Sundance Audience Award at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sundance is one of the biggest American film festivals, and films presented with the Audience Award often go on ...
At church our priest read the letter for his sermon and I thought, “This will be my blog this week – rather than giving a mild chuckle to the millions and millions of people who read this blog faithfully (or maybe that’s just one person – Pearl), I’ll give them Pope Francis’...
It allows him to speak through his Word or through worship music, journaling, or maybe a strong prompting in our spirit that’s more intimate than what you might hear in a sermon or read in a book. A regular time with God is similar in many ways to our Marriage Summit, because God ...
” One of the formative moments in my life is when the pastor at my family’s church saw fit to include in his sermon a critique of a men’s athletic team who met the US president (it was probably George W. Bush) & committed the grave error of not dressing suitably. Apparently some...
It’s not Chick-fil-A’s association with the Sermon on the Mount that is causing the problem. In college, they now teach about the evils of “Christian Privilege.” A shame MacKinnon missed that. In name, on the crucifix, and in art, Jesus Christ is desecrated in the most twisted ...
Sermon for Pentecost 2023 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear . . . Whoever fears has not been made perfect in love Fear kills Love Fear puts up boundaries behind which we hide – it is the fig leaf behind which we hide – from God. God in Jesus calling us ...
It’s strange coming back to somewhere you’d sermoned about authoritatively for years to people who weren’t from there, and confronting your own total ignorance about it. I live in South Belfast which is the fairly, “gentrified” bit- not a deliberate choice but necessity in that I ha...
and ever so many popped bottles of Manischewitz. Did three-and-a-half minutes of Drake and Lil Wayne going HAM — err, going smoked salmon — on the former’s special day do more to get kids to their local congregations on Saturday morning than every rabbinical sermon this decade combine...
As the call to prayer rings out a crowd fills the Jamal Abdel Nasser mosque, spilling out onto the street in front of a market which stops business as the imam begins his sermon. Thousands have been killed in Gaza, he says. UN resolutions against Israel have not been implemented, while ...