sermon
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Fernández’s adaptation is anxious to turn tragedy into a sermon, offering theatergoers moral solace where Sophocles leaves his audience in a contemplative state of stunned silence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Rev Bernard Randall was sacked by Trent College in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, in 2019, two months after the sermon.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Christian Concern said Randall's sermon reflected the Church of England's teaching on marriage, but it triggered complaints from some pupils, parents and staff members, who said it nearly left them in tears.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Scripture says you can’t love God and hate other people,” Talarico, a seminarian, said in a sermon posted on TikTok in December 2025.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
I wondered was this Grandpa’s idea of a practical joke or was it a sermon.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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For Waldrop’s half-brothers, Charles and Julian, the sermons never quite sink in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
When the state was slow to act, conservative preachers’ sermons were cruel and much of the country looked away, these spaces helped people endure.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Yet Mr. Weber showed that Dutch Jesuits deployed the camera obscura as a metaphor in devotional literature and sermons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
His father was a Southern Baptist minister, and his Sunday morning sermons were broadcast on the radio in the afternoons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The sermon slouched along as sermons will when every single soul in the building is wishing that the ushers would start passing around cool glasses of lemonade.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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