Word: pulpitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First time KMOX (St. Louis) invited bald, elderly Rev. Louis Sieck of the Zion Lutheran Church to its Church of the Air pulpit, studio technicians schooled him thoroughly in the ticklish trick of winding up his sermon on the dot. Recently the Rev. Mr. Sieck was invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory...
Racism in the U. S. (Fri. 10:15 p. m. WMCA, N. Y.). Talk by Jesuit John LaFarge, editor of the Interracial Review, author of Interracial Justice ; from Father Coughlin's former radio pulpit...
...things that depress U. S. liberal churchmen is that the Church is supported largely by the upper and middle classes, by people who believe that God is a capitalist. Although many churchmen have accustomed their congregations to socially radical words from the pulpit, most parsons pipe the tunes which businessmen call. Last week in a Chicago suburb (Barrington, Ill.) there was a prodigious politico-religious piping. Occasion: "The Barrington Town Warming Plan ... a combination of the early American town meeting and the old time religious revival." Tune-caller: Barrington's biggest business, Jewel Tea Co., Inc., makers...
...years, Dr. Taylor was in the advice business long before he took and registered his air name. Both the voice and the experience he traces back 49 years to his cradle on the Old Taylor Plantation in Kentucky. The son of a Baptist preacher, his preparation for the pulpit started early...
...danger of war did not loom as it loomed in 1915, but press, pulpit and meeting house were the scenes of spontaneous outbursts. As Mary Pickford quaintly put it, "I don't know what our dear Lord Jesus would think if he were to come back to earth today and see what his Christian babies are doing." And citizens of White Plains, N. Y. called on Charles A. Lindbergh and Henry Ford to return medals they lately accepted from Germany...