The event of Peter’s denials of Christ is a frequent subject of Sunday sermons. The prediction and outplaying of the denials, as recorded in the four Gospels, is a powerful reflection of a condition of our relationship with Christ—that our faith is more vulnerable than we care to admit.1 But a small thorny issue surrounds the Gospel accounts of this event, one that is a nagging distraction to s...

This collection of sermons appears to us to be specially adapted for the purpose it is intended. It is most difficult for clergymen who officiate at Asylums to preach sermons suitable to their afflicted hearers, and great judgment is required in the selection of the subject preached. Dr. Browne has given the following judicious observations on the religious instruction of the insane: " In the e...

Seirogan, a popular anti-diarrhoeal pill, is arguably one of the most successful pharmaceutical products of modern Japan. What is less known is that the Japanese army initially developed Seirogan during the Russo-Japanese War as the ‘Conquer-Russia-Pill’, which was later marketed to the public by private manufacturers. Previous scholars have emphasised the top–down governmental method of mobili...

The Protestant emphasis on proclaiming God's word resulted in the rejection of the medieval form of the sermon and the development of new styles of preaching. The two models used by Protestant preachers were the classical oration, endorsed by Philipp Melanchthon, and the patristic homily, which was a greater influence for the Swiss reformers. The differences between the two styles of preaching ...

This article adds to recent literature in the study of religion and marriage by examining older couples’ use of religion as a cultural repertoire in enduring marriages. The study includes qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 43 married, Christian couples. Couples reported four predominant social contexts that gave sacred meanings to their marriage: prayer, worship services and sermo...

Jesus is often described in the Gospels as a preacher. What has become his most famous sermon is recorded in Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:17-49. The former is usually referred to as the Sermon on the Mount (note 5:1), the latter as the Sermon on the Plain (note 6:17 KJV). The following study will be concerned primarily with the unity and structure of the Matthean sermon, but a necessary preliminary i...

BACKGROUND To assess the effects of a communication intervention designed to enhance Jordanian religious leaders' (RLs) communication about family health. METHODS Programmatic effects on RLs were evaluated with a panel study design; 245 male and 145 female RLs participated in both baseline and end-line surveys in 2011. To assess effects on mosque attendees, a nonequivalent, post-intervention ...

Only occasionally some essays have been written in English. The considerable redundancy in this compilation of original versions might be attributed to the wish of being understood in spite of the clumsiness of expression in a foreign language. However, the author must confess that he speaks with equal redundancy in his own language – like all preachers do in their sermons if they believe in th...