sermons

Are priests expected to pause their sermons while immigration officials drag congregants from their pews for deportation?

They were called Chautauquas and featured educational lectures and religious sermons, as well as theatrical and musical performances.

From deconstructed pianos to sensory deprivation rooms that play her sermons to colorful laser projections, Coltrane’s legacy is in the hands of these American artists.

His aunt Miva, he affectionately says, would take him to church on Sundays and he remembers at 7 or 8 years old falling asleep in the pews during those Baptist sermons.

Soon, Paine’s pamphlet was everywhere — whispered by soldiers in Valley Forge tents, shouted in Philadelphia taverns, quoted in sermons.