Word: pulpitation
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...encouraged us to move from spiritual theory to practice and from the pulpit to the streets." Brown said...
...vehemently deny any involvement in this brand of domestic terrorism. The state and national anti-choice organizations claim they have never heard of Salvi. They say meekly, "We didn't tell him to do it." Don't believe it. The anti-choice movement, at every level from Sunday morning pulpit preachings urging "protection of the unborn" to sidewalk counselors who harass doctors and women with screams of "baby-killer," "murder," and "assassin," is sending out a call to arms...
Pope John Paul II has, among many other things, the world's bully-est pulpit. Few of his predecessors over the past 2,000 years have spoken from it as often and as forcefully as he. When he talks, it is not only to his flock of nearly a billion; he expects the world to listen. And the flock and the world listen, not always liking what they hear. This year he cast the net of his message wider than ever: Crossing the Threshold of Hope, his meditations on topics ranging from the existence of God to the mistreatment...
Taking the bully pulpit anew after a recent speech -- not approved by the White House -- on "corporate welfare," Labor Secretary Robert Reich today warned that many Americans aren't saving enough to maintain their living standard when they retire. "Today's workers will need unprecedented levels of savings to maintain their living standards during those retirement years," Reich told a Senate Finance subcommittee. "But since workers are now earning less and saving less, they'll have less -- especially if retirement itself grows longer." The best solution, he argued, was for employers to increase wages so their workers have enough left...
...problem with moral lectures by politicians is not just the clang effect. Once politicians cross the threshold and begin to preach, it becomes natural for the flock to demand of the preachers an accounting of their private lives, if only to see how the pulpit pounders live up to their own proclaimed standards. And that in turn legitimates our current obsession with what is euphemistically called character but is really a prurient interest in the private lives -- actually, the private vices -- of our leaders. Campaigns turn into spectacles of dueling peccadilloes and mutual muckraking. The end result of this orgy...