Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is one other small point. My pacifism is not as recent as the reference to that point might suggest. I was a pacifist during the last War and for several years thereafter and was forced to resign my pulpit during the War because of that. Then I had a period when I was out of both the church and the pacifist movement, returning to both...
...Billings prize of $150 for improvement in pulpit delivery was divided between Theodore S. Darrah 3Dv., John A. Martin 3 Dv., and Harry B. Scholefield...
This week Mr. Cowan moved to a more congenial pulpit. He had accepted a call to the Community Church of TVA's model town of Norris, Tenn. In this nondenominational, New Dealish church he could continue the activities which have made his Fellowship an example, mostly horrible, to Southern churchgoers...
...Churchmen made no reply. Since its founding it has been on record against "a growing fascist spirit within the Southern States, evidenced in floggings, teachers' oaths . . . concentration camps, vigilante service of deputized landowners and hoodlums in certain sections. . . ." The Fellowship is for: "The right of freedom of the pulpit which is historically identified with the prophetic character of the Judaic and Christian religions...
...LAYMAN invariably suffers a severe shock when he reads a book on religion and finds that it is neither an attempt at conversion nor an attack on his conscience. The concept that a religious book is hurled from a pulpit dies hard in the popular mind, but Dean Sperry has done much to explode this theory in his lectures in the Lowell Institute published in book form under the name of Strangers and Pilgrims...