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Article: A joint venture: the making of a sermon. (Editorial)
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- The Christian Century
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- August 24, 1994
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Recently I experienced a homiletical artist at work: I heard Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. He was preaching not in Harlem but on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, where summer visitors gather for music, lectures, sermons and strolls along the lakefront. Butts spoke at Chautauqua's 6,000-seat Amphitheater auditorium, where Franklin Roosevelt delivered his famous "I hate war" speech. Chautauqua was started by Methodists in the 19th century, and for more than 100 years it has maintained a reputation as a teetotaling, education-oriented place for prayer, relaxation and study.
In recent decades the ...