Word: pulpitation
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...lesson, then: Don't send policy advisers to do a president's job. Now Clinton himself has stepped back into the bully pulpit; CNN reports the President made a videotaped address in the Oval Office Wednesday that will be distributed to Arab countries. Ironically, there may be less jeers in Oman than in Ohio...
Even if John Paul is physically slower these days, his pulpit is still the world. He spends hours every day writing by hand the stream of speeches, homilies, letters to bishops, even best-selling books, that get his message out. He continues a punishing daily round of public Masses, official audiences, meetings with visiting bishops, working breakfasts, lunches and dinners. When he is preparing a foreign trip, he uses his morning Mass to practice the appropriate language, though Spanish is one of the eight he speaks fluently...
Coming from a man in the generation that left us with a staggering national debt and mass environmental degradation, I suggest Mr. Scali reevaluate his commitment to preaching from a pulpit built on the rape of our future. --Christopher M. Kirchhoff...
...umpire was Almighty God, who stepped up behind home base and shouted, "Play Ball!!" Reverend Borders acted all this out in the place where the pulpit had stood. The congregation, to say the least, was caught up in Reverend Borders' drama; some were nearly on their feet, others raised a hand to let Borders know they were with him. I had seen that raised hand in my home church in Louisiana. The hand was a gesture from the black dance thrown out in anger on some occasions, and joy on others. Words were shouted in encouragement: "Yes, tell it, brother...
Reverend King came to the pulpit, clapping his hands, saying "Amen." He was happy, too. King began what he had to say quietly. But I remember his words: "We're starting out on a dangerous game, my friends, and yet I know God is with...