William H. Willimon - "No Partiality" Easter Service (March 30, 1986)

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Narrator	Good morning.	0:01
	Welcome to our live telecast	0:02
	of the Duke University Chapel Easter Service.	0:03
	WTVD is proud to telecast this beautiful observance	0:06
	of Easter from this magnificent chapel.	0:10
	The presiding minister for this mornings service	0:13
	is the Reverend Ms. Nancy A. Ferree,	0:15
	Assistant Minister to the university.	0:18
	The lector is Mr. Mark D. Hipps,	0:20
	President of Duke Campus Ministry.	0:22
	This morning's sermon will be delivered	0:25
	by the Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon,	0:26
	minister to the university.	0:29
	The director of the choir and instrumentalists	0:30
	is Mr. J. Benjamin Smith.	0:33
	(choir singing)	0:36
	(lively big band music)	1:16
	(choir singing)	1:28
-	Hallelujah, Christ the Lord is risen.	5:01
	(congregation mumbling)	5:05
	And a voice from the throne said behold,	5:09
	I make all things new.	5:13
	(congregation mumbling)	5:16
	Mighty God, by your power,	5:26
	Christ is raised from death	5:29
	to rule this world in love.	5:32
	We praise you for his presence with us	5:35
	because he lives, we look for eternal life,	5:37
	confident that nothing past, present	5:43
	or yet to come can separate us from your great love	5:47
	in Christ, amen.	5:51
	Be seated.	5:55
-	Let us pray.	6:04
All	Oh living God, bring us forth from death to life	6:07
	so that as the scriptures are read	6:11
	and your word is proclaimed,	6:14
	we might be brought to a sure	6:17
	and living faith in your Lordship, amen.	6:19
-	The epistle lesson is taken	6:24
	from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.	6:26
	If for this life only we have hoped in Christ	6:29
	we are of all men most to be pitied	6:34
	but in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.	6:38
	The first fruits of those	6:42
	who have fallen asleep	6:45
	for as by a man came death,	6:47
	by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.	6:50
	For as in Adam, all die,	6:54
	so also in Christ shall all be made alive.	6:58
	But each in his own order.	7:03
	Christ the first fruits,	7:06
	then at his coming,	7:09
	those who belong to Christ.	7:11
	Then comes the end	7:14
	when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father	7:16
	after destroying every rule	7:20
	and every authority and power.	7:22
	For he must reign until he has put all enemies	7:27
	under his feet.	7:32
	The last enemy to be destroyed is death.	7:35
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	7:41
	The gospel lesson is taken from John.	7:44
	Now of the first day of the week,	7:50
	Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early	7:52
	while it was still dark	7:56
	and saw that the stone had been taken away	7:58
	from the tomb.	8:01
	So she ran	8:03
	and went to Simon Peter	8:04
	and the other disciple,	8:07
	the one whom Jesus loved	8:09
	and said to them,	8:11
	they have taken the Lord out of the tomb	8:13
	and we do not know where they have laid him.	8:17
	Peter then came out with the other disciple	8:21
	and they went toward the tomb.	8:24
	They both ran but the other disciple outran Peter	8:27
	and reached the tomb first	8:32
	and stooping to look in,	8:35
	he saw the linen cloths lying there	8:37
	but he did not go in.	8:41
	Then Simon Peter came following him	8:44
	and went into the tomb.	8:47
	He saw the linen cloths lying	8:50
	and the napkin which had been on his head	8:51
	not lying with the linen cloths	8:55
	but rolled up in a place by itself.	8:58
	Then the other disciple	9:01
	who reached the tomb first	9:03
	also went in and he saw and believed	9:05
	for as yet they did not know the scripture	9:11
	that he must rise from the dead.	9:14
	Then the disciples went back to their homes.	9:17
	But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb	9:22
	and as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb	9:24
	and she saw two angels in white	9:29
	sitting where the body of Jesus had layen,	9:31
	on at the head and one at the feet.	9:34
	They said to her,	9:37
	woman, why are you weeping?	9:38
	She said to them because they have taken away my Lord	9:42
	and I do not know where they have laid him.	9:46
	Saying this she turned round	9:49
	and saw Jesus standing	9:51
	but she did not know it was Jesus.	9:54
	Jesus said to her, woman,	9:57
	why are you weeping?	10:00
	Whom do you seek?	10:01
	Supposing him to be the gardener,	10:03
	she said to him, sir,	10:06
	if you have carried him away	10:10
	tell me where you have laid him	10:12
	and I will take him away.	10:15
	Jesus said to her, Mary,	10:18
	she turned and said to him in Hebrew,	10:22
	(speaking in foreign language)	10:25
	which means teacher.	10:26
	Jesus said to her,	10:28
	do not hold me	10:30
	for I have not yet ascended to the Father	10:32
	but go to my brothers and say to them,	10:35
	I am ascending to my father	10:38
	and your father, to my God and your God.	10:40
	Mary Magdalene went	10:45
	and said to the disciples I have seen the Lord	10:47
	and she told him that he had said these things to her.	10:51
	This ends the reading of the gospel.	10:56
	(choir singing)	11:10
	♪ Though I am fallen to you ♪	12:14
	♪ A mystery ♪	12:18
	♪ We shall not go to sleep ♪	12:27
	♪ When he comes ♪	12:32
	♪ We shall not sleep ♪	12:44
	♪ When he comes ♪	12:51
	♪ But we shall all ♪	12:58
	♪ Be changed ♪	13:03
	♪ All be changed ♪	13:05
	♪ Shall all be changed ♪	13:11
	♪ We shall all be changed ♪	13:18
	♪ Shall all be changed ♪	13:26
	♪ In one moment, a moment ♪	13:37
	♪ In the twinkling of an eye ♪	13:43
	♪ At the sound, the sound of the trumpet ♪	13:47
	(choir singing)	13:56
	♪ And then ♪	14:54
	♪ What of all ♪	14:57
	♪ Was written ♪	15:00
	♪ The same shall be brought ♪	15:06
	♪ To pass ♪	15:13
	(choir singing)	15:23
-	Today's scripture from the book of Acts	17:39
	and Peter opened his mouth and said,	17:42
	truly I perceive that God shows no partiality	17:46
	but in every nation anyone who fears him	17:50
	and does what is right is acceptable.	17:53
	You know the word which he sent to Israel	17:57
	preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ,	18:00
	he is the Lord of all.	18:03
	The word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea,	18:06
	beginning from Galilee	18:09
	after the baptism which John preached,	18:11
	how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit	18:14
	and with power,	18:18
	how he went about doing good	18:20
	and healing all that were oppressed by the Devil	18:23
	for God was with him	18:26
	and we are witnesses to all that he did	18:30
	both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem,	18:32
	they put him to death	18:36
	by hanging him on a tree.	18:37
	But God raised him on the third day	18:40
	and made him manifest to all.	18:43
	When I first read the lesson,	18:53
	it seemed an odd text for an Easter Sunday.	18:55
	And Peter opened his mouth and said truly I perceive	19:00
	God shows no partiality.	19:04
	But in every nation anyone who fears him	19:09
	and does what is right is acceptable.	19:11
	You know the word which he sent,	19:16
	how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth	19:18
	with the Holy Spirit and with power,	19:21
	how he went about doing good and healing,	19:23
	they put him to death by hanging him on a tree	19:26
	but God raised him up on the third day.	19:30
	Well it's a story, yes,	19:35
	and it's an Easter story.	19:38
	Since it is a narration,	19:40
	whose brevity would do any preacher credit,	19:43
	of the resurrection.	19:47
	They put him to death by hanging him on a tree	19:49
	but God raised him up on the third day.	19:52
	And that about sums it up.	19:56
	The next time someone asks you	19:59
	what do Christians believe?	20:01
	You simply turn in your Bible to Acts 10,	20:03
	and it's all there.	20:05
	Here is one of the oldest	20:08
	and maybe the shortest summaries	20:11
	of the story which gave birth to the church.	20:14
	They put him to death, God raised him	20:19
	on the third day.	20:22
	And yet no one asked, "Hey Peter,	20:25
	"tell us an Easter story."	20:29
	No, what they said was at First Church Jerusalem,	20:32
	"Hey Peter, what were you doing with them?"	20:37
	See, they were angry	20:45
	because word had gotten back to them	20:47
	that Peter had just baptized Cornelius.	20:49
	Cornelius, a Roman, a gentile,	20:55
	a soldier.	21:02
	And when Peter got back to first Church Jerusalem,	21:06
	he had some explaining to do.	21:10
	You ate with those Romans.	21:15
	Yeah.	21:18
	Lasagna and other unclean fast foods.	21:20
	You baptized them?	21:25
	Well, Peter said, you told me to go spread the word.	21:30
	Sure but within limits.	21:35
	You way overstepped your bounds, fisherman.	21:39
	Went over the limit, passed all proper distinctions.	21:43
	And at the mention of limits, boundaries, distinctions,	21:49
	Peter said, I've found	21:57
	that God shows no (speaking in foreign language),	22:00
	no partiality.	22:05
	Or as it's translated in the Jerusalem Bible,	22:09
	God doesn't have favorites.	22:13
	It's a thought found elsewhere in scripture.	22:19
	God is not partial.	22:22
	He will not take a bribe, Deuteronomy 10.	22:25
	In Galatians 2:6 when Paul is questioned	22:29
	about relationships between slaves and masters,	22:33
	Paul says God shows no partiality.	22:38
	God doesn't know the difference	22:43
	between slave and free, Jew, Greek, male, female.	22:44
	Or when they asked Jesus,	22:52
	Jesus said, he makes the sun to rise	22:54
	upon the good and the bad,	22:59
	and his rain to fall upon the just and the unjust.	23:01
	God is impartial.	23:07
	And I know of no sadder sight in academia	23:11
	than a professor	23:14
	who plays favorites	23:17
	or a student who makes distinctions	23:20
	between different colors	23:22
	of his fellow students.	23:24
	Or a university administrator	23:27
	who enforces the rules for some but not for all.	23:29
	God shows no partiality says Peter.	23:33
	And you and I, Gentile, Johnny come latelies	23:38
	to the house of Israel can take delight	23:42
	that God shows no partiality	23:46
	because if God did,	23:48
	you and I wouldn't be here.	23:49
	But you can sure understand	23:54
	how those Jewish Christians were upset with Peter.	23:55
	A Gentile?	24:02
	A Roman?	24:05
	A soldier?	24:07
	A man whose sword hung at his side	24:10
	signified both his security forces	24:14
	and the KGB and the Gestapo all rolled into one,	24:18
	a man who just following orders	24:23
	was the sort of person who only a few months before	24:27
	had hung their beloved Jesus up on a cross to die.	24:30
	And Peter baptized him.	24:36
	But why did you do it they wanted to know,	24:41
	how could you, you an ignorant fisherman,	24:42
	who only a couple of years ago	24:46
	didn't know anything more than how to tell a carp	24:48
	from a flounder, you decide to lay aside 2,000 years	24:52
	of time-honored tradition	24:56
	and baptize this Roman.	25:00
	And Peter answered,	25:04
	God shows no partiality.	25:07
	Because Jesus of Nazareth	25:12
	they put him to death	25:14
	but God raised him up on the third day.	25:17
	In other words, Peter said Easter made him do it.	25:22
	They asked Peter how he could kick down	25:28
	this venerable wall of distinction	25:30
	and Peter answered by telling them an Easter story.	25:34
	"Something there is that doesn't love a wall,"	25:41
	writes the poet Frost.	25:45
	But you better learn	25:48
	because you'll spend most of your life between walls,	25:51
	life is intramural.	25:56
	There's one between East and West Berlin	25:59
	and one between the Arabs and the Israelis.	26:01
	The way to live with the Soviets,	26:07
	build a big high wall,	26:09
	stack the bombs, they put on one	26:12
	and then we put on a bigger one	26:15
	and we keep stacking it higher and higher,	26:17
	national defense, that's just a fancy way of saying	26:20
	Partiality, partition, apartheid,	26:28
	dirty words, I'm sure they all have	26:34
	the same linguistic derivation.	26:37
	In our distant past,	26:40
	somebody looked across the field	26:42
	and saw his neighbor and when their eyes met,	26:43
	he looked around on the ground	26:46
	for a stone, he picked up one stone	26:47
	and then another stone and another	26:49
	and I bet that humanity invented walls	26:53
	before we discovered wheels.	26:57
	And you can paint it.	27:02
	You can fresco it, you can graffiti it	27:04
	but it's still a wall, a partition, a boundary	27:07
	and it does a good job	27:12
	of keeping him out.	27:14
	And an even better job of keeping you in.	27:17
	Because with walls, sometimes it's hard to know	27:21
	whether you're locked in or out.	27:25
	'Cause once the thing is built,	27:28
	everybody feels like a prisoner with walls.	27:29
	Well, you know her, he said of his fellow Duke student,	27:36
	she is the BMW Spring at Fort Lauderdale Set.	27:39
	Case closed, got that wall all in place.	27:45
	What else is growing up	27:51
	except learning about the boundaries,	27:54
	learning about the walls.	27:59
	Here is a six-year-old going out	28:04
	for his first day of school,	28:07
	triumphantly parading out to this new adventure,	28:10
	eyes so bright.	28:12
	Go back and look at that child 10 years later.	28:16
	What happened to the bright eyes?	28:21
	Well you see, the bright eyes got dulled	28:25
	after the standardized tests	28:28
	and the report cards	28:31
	and keep both feet on the floor young man	28:32
	and write between the lines.	28:34
	I'm just not good in math, he says.	28:39
	Girls are not supposed to play soccer, she says	28:44
	as she leaves the field.	28:49
	Well, good, good,	28:52
	they've learned about the boundaries,	28:54
	the limits, the walls	28:56
	and when they've discovered more about their limits,	28:58
	we'll give them a diploma and call them mature.	29:00
	And if they get too out of line,	29:05
	we'll get 'em a therapist	29:06
	to help them adjust to the walls.	29:07
	It's what I do as a preacher in the hospital all the time.	29:11
	I meet the doctor coming out of the patient's room.	29:15
	He says to me okay, preacher,	29:19
	I've shown him the wall,	29:21
	you go in there and help him live with it.	29:22
	And I go in and stand at bedside and say, Lord,	29:27
	grant us the serenity to live with these walls.	29:32
	One day, when I was about 20,	29:41
	I was talking with a guy my age	29:44
	who had never seen New York City.	29:46
	We pooled our money and found out that we had enough	29:49
	to get to New York.	29:52
	We left that very afternoon,	29:53
	drove all the way from South Carolina to New York.	29:55
	We went up the Empire State Building	29:58
	right after sunrise, went out on the Staten Island Ferry,	30:02
	saw two Swedish movies,	30:06
	walked around down at Greenwich Village,	30:08
	got back in the car, came back in time to see sunrise	30:10
	over the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.	30:13
	But this year I'll be 40.	30:18
	Wanna go to Asheville?	30:22
	No, no.	30:23
	(congregation laughing)	30:25
	I've learned my limits, I'll just stay here, take a nap.	30:28
	(congregation laughing)	30:32
	Oh, you laugh.	30:35
	You laugh.	30:37
	Many of you are young,	30:38
	still straining at the limits,	30:41
	dancing along the boundaries,	30:43
	that's what youth does.	30:45
	You think because you've done well in school,	30:49
	because you got in a place like Duke	30:51
	and because you're young	30:54
	and you've never even known heartburn,	30:55
	you think you can do anything you like.	30:59
	You're part of the new wave,	31:02
	the new generation, ignoring past prejudices	31:04
	and distinctions, you won't live your life	31:07
	by the same boundaries of race	31:10
	and sex and ideology as your parents.	31:14
	You're free, impartial.	31:18
	But come back at 40 and we'll see.	31:23
	But there is one wall	31:31
	that even you won't get over.	31:35
	There's no way around that one.	31:41
	You can jog, you can eat yogurt,	31:44
	you can think positively,	31:46
	but one day your super highway will dead end	31:49
	against a blank wall	31:53
	that nobody gets over.	31:56
	We shall die.	32:01
	Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a story, The Wall,	32:06
	in which a group of men	32:11
	are sitting around and talking and awaiting death	32:13
	by a firing squad in the Spanish Civil War.	32:16
	As the hour of their death approaches,	32:22
	when they must stand before that wall,	32:23
	eyes blindfolded and meet their deaths,	32:25
	they begin to think.	32:32
	One says, "With what eagerness I had run after happiness.	32:35
	"And women and liberty and to what end?	32:43
	"I wanted to liberate Spain,	32:46
	"I belong to the Anarchist movement,	32:48
	"I spoke at public meetings,	32:49
	"I took everything as seriously	32:51
	"as if I had been immortal.	32:53
	"I had the impression	32:57
	"that I had my whole life before me.	32:58
	"And now it isn't worth anything.	33:02
	"Death has taken the charm out of everything."	33:07
	And that's what death does.	33:14
	So, why should I criticize those	33:18
	who get all they can	33:21
	and strive and achieve	33:23
	and eat and drink and be merry?	33:26
	Maybe they're the smart ones	33:30
	because they've learned that life has its limits	33:34
	and you better grab all you can	33:36
	while you can before your head hits solid	33:38
	against that dark wall	33:42
	that nobody gets over.	33:44
	In criticizing the hedonism	33:47
	and the alleged self-centeredness	33:50
	of many of today's campuses	33:51
	one commentator writes,	33:54
	"Faced with a nuclear threat,	33:57
	"a shrinking future, gloomy economic students,	34:00
	"today's students feel	34:04
	"that they are on the Titanic.	34:06
	"The thing may be sinking	34:10
	"but at least they can be on the first class deck	34:13
	"when it goes down."	34:16
	The BMWs, the clothes,	34:19
	the career, the frantic search for fun.	34:22
	It's their way of living with the wall.	34:27
	And if we can't get over the wall,	34:33
	we can at least plant roses in front of it.	34:35
	Accept reality, face the facts,	34:38
	which all means know your limits.	34:43
	Learn to live with the boundaries,	34:48
	including the biggest, most inviolable boundary of all:	34:51
	death.	34:57
	And then there comes this fisherman	35:02
	still breathless from scaling the wall	35:07
	to reach over to embrace an outsider.	35:09
	Saying truly I perceive that God shows no partiality.	35:16
	God will not love a wall.	35:26
	On Good Friday you see,	35:31
	they nailed him shut,	35:33
	somebody disturbing our peace,	35:35
	somebody not recognizing the status quo,	35:37
	admiring our boundaries,	35:39
	well, we've got an answer for that, kill him,	35:41
	seal the tomb shut.	35:44
	And just when we had all these walls,	35:48
	our limits fixed so firmly in place,	35:51
	insiders, outsiders, possible, impossible, life, death,	35:55
	he ripped away the veil in the Holy of Holies,	36:01
	tore off the shroud,	36:06
	rolled the stone away, scaled the wall	36:08
	and we so impressed	36:13
	by our limits,	36:17
	so well adjusted to the walls,	36:20
	come to church,	36:26
	shocked again this Easter	36:28
	to find him waving at us	36:31
	from the other side.	36:36
	He's loose.	36:40
	And what's more, he wants to set you and me loose	36:43
	because God shows no partiality.	36:47
	(lively organ music)	37:00
	(choir singing)	37:31
Minister	The risen Christ be with you.	38:41
Congregation	And also with you.	38:43
-	Let us pray.	38:45
	Most kind and gracious God,	38:57
	who called forth thy son from the grave	39:00
	making life the victor over death,	39:03
	we bow in prayer before thee	39:07
	seeking a fresh awareness of thy reality	39:09
	and of thy resurrecting presence.	39:13
	In so doing, we offer these prayers for others	39:16
	that in our remembering of their needs,	39:20
	we may be reminded of our own neediness	39:23
	as we stand in utter dependency upon thee.	39:26
	Let us pray for those who suffer in our world,	39:31
	for the masses of starving people	39:36
	that whatever language they may speak,	39:39
	their cries of anguish will be heard.	39:42
	For homeless people everywhere,	39:46
	for those who dwell in the streets of our nation's cities,	39:49
	for thousands of refugees	39:54
	who roam the Earth searching for a place to call home.	39:55
	For runaway children who feel home	40:00
	is more of a hindrance to their growth than a help,	40:02
	that each may find a place of rest and understanding.	40:06
	For those who are bereaved	40:12
	over the loss of a loved one,	40:14
	over news of a debilitating illness,	40:18
	over memories of happier days gone by,	40:21
	that thy healing presence	40:26
	may restore them to fullness of life.	40:27
	Let us pray for those caught	40:32
	in the struggles of discernment,	40:34
	for all those contemplating life-changing decisions,	40:37
	grant them wisdom	40:41
	and a true sense of thy presence in their lives,	40:43
	for those who seek to know thee	40:47
	yet struggle to believe.	40:49
	Grant them the courage necessary	40:52
	to take the leap of faith.	40:54
	For leaders of all the nations	40:56
	that they may understand and respond	40:59
	to the needs of all the world's peoples	41:02
	and lead us in the pathway of peace.	41:05
	Let us pray for all who feel unloved or unwanted,	41:10
	for those who seek to injure themselves or others,	41:15
	for those who indulge in material excesses	41:19
	attempting to fill an interior void.	41:23
	For those who live within institutions	41:27
	surrounded by people yet lonely beyond words.	41:29
	Heal these thy children, oh God	41:34
	that they may appreciate the unique worth	41:37
	which thou has bestowed upon them.	41:40
	These and the many unspoken concerns	41:44
	of this congregation we lift unto thee,	41:47
	redeeming God, trusting in thy goodness,	41:49
	confident in thy power to save,	41:54
	grateful that thou art love for all eternity.	41:57
	In the name of Jesus Christ our risen Lord we pray.	42:03
	Amen.	42:08
	And now in the sprit of thanksgiving	42:12
	that God has raised Christ from the dead,	42:14
	let us offer our gifts and ourselves to God.	42:17
	(operatic singing)	42:36
	(lively organ music)	51:08
	(congregation singing)	51:28
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	51:41
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	51:44
	(congregation singing)	51:49
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	52:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	52:06
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	52:10
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	52:13
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	52:18
	♪ Amen ♪	52:29
-	Almighty God, power of life,	52:43
	we thank you for all your mercies	52:46
	and for your loving care over all your creatures,	52:48
	especially we praise you that you have not abandoned us	52:52
	to the death of sin and despair	52:55
	that with Jesus Christ you have lifted us up from the grave.	52:59
	Grant that we might live in newness of life,	53:03
	that we might ourselves know the power	53:06
	of resurrection now and in the world to come.	53:09
	This we pray in the name of the risen Christ	53:13
	who taught us to pray.	53:16
All	Our father who art in heave,	53:18
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,	53:21
	thy will be done	53:25
	on Earth as it is in heave.	53:27
	Give us this day our daily bread	53:29
	and forgive us our trespasses	53:32
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	53:34
	and lead us not into temptation	53:38
	but deliver us from evil	53:40
	for thine is the kingdom, the power	53:42
	and the glory forever.	53:45
	Amen.	53:47
	(dramatic band music)	53:51
	(choir singing)	54:15
	(dramatic band music)	56:46
-	And now may the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ	57:00
	who has come from death to life	57:03
	be with you now and evermore.	57:05
	♪ Amen ♪	57:11
	♪ Amen ♪	57:14
	♪ Amen ♪	57:17
	♪ Amen ♪	57:20
	(lively organ music)	57:31
Narrator	You've been watching a live telecast	59:01
	of the Duke University Chapel Easter Service	59:03
	from the campus of Duke University.	59:05
	Stay tuned to WTVD11 for Curious Kaleidoscope	59:08
	coming up next here on WTVD11.	59:11

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "No Partiality" Easter Service (March 30, 1986)

Description:

The story of Easter breaks down walls of distinction, including the greatest wall: death. God breaks the boundary of death through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, giving salvation, impartially to all people, Jew and gentile. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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Date:

March 30, 1986

Speaker:

Willimon, William H.

Liturgical Calendar:

Biblical Book:

Acts

Chapter and Verse:

Acts 10:34-43

Subject:

Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 VHS-0001
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Duke Chapel Recordings

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Language:

English

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United States
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The Duke University Chapel Recordings were transferred to the Duke University Archives beginning in 1970.

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William H. Willimon - "No Partiality" Easter Service (March 30, 1986)

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