Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work so celebrated and so concise, the Book of Job seems to be much misunderstood by men in both pew and pulpit. Some think of Job as the paragon of patience; to others, Job appears so impatient that he dares impiety in his insistence that God explain himself. Many Bible scholars see the Book of Job as an attempt to justify God's ways to men; but to another school of thought, the book's enormous thesis means simply that no justification is possible-only revelation, before which the man who cries for justice and understanding must...
Churchmen should not be shy about showmanship, urged Psychologist Dr. James G. Ranck, lecturer in psychology and religion at Drew University. "The drive-in church, the mobile pulpit, the church in a restaurant, the nightclub for college students which conducts a lecture series on which theological school faculty and other clergy occasionally appear-all these and other psychological equivalents of the soapbox on the corner are suggestive of what can be done to take religion to marginal groups...
...Cardinal Gerlier, onetime Bishop of Lourdes, walked slowly to the pulpit and looked down at the long line of wheelchairs in the front row of the congregation. "Lourdes is a land of miracles," he said, "but it is above all a place where an avalanche of grace takes place. It is a real hospital for souls...
...baby with colic if the family had no other sedative in the house. The Rev. Dr. Albert P. Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church was outraged. "I feel it was a terrible blunder to prescribe 'toddies for toddlers,' " he intoned from the pulpit. "To give [alcohol] to children is to have them grow up with a taste for it-maybe a craving for it. Who knows but from so innocent a beginning another alcoholic joins the ranks...
Different from the Rest. Across the Columbia River in Kennewick. the Rev. Charles W. May, 40, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, announced himself in "complete disagreement." The pulpit, he went on, "should not be used to express personal views when they are contrary to the doctrines of the church...