Word: pulpitation
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...while America was counting votes and taking polls, Bill Clinton snuck away and came closer than he ever had before to grasping the mantle of his political patron saint, John F. Kennedy. Standing at the pulpit from which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last sermon, Clinton spoke courageously and passionately about the crime and violence that plague America's black urban youth...
...Naturally, when you're as close as we've been and haven't won the big games, people start wondering why," says F.S.U. head coach Bobby Bowden, with the long-suffering tone of a man who prowls the sidelines on Saturdays, then mounts a pulpit on Sundays as a lay preacher. "But the only way to answer their questions is to win." In October Bowden thought he had the answer. After three heartbreaking losses to Miami (on a failed two-point conversion and two late field goals that went wide right), Florida State becalmed the Hurricanes 28-10. Bowden...
...Election Day. As Rollins told the journalists, "We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That's fine -- don't get up on the Sunday pulpit and preach. We know you've endorsed him, but don't get up there and say it's your moral obligation that you go on Tuesday to vote for Jim Florio.' " He added that Republicans had paid "key workers" in black Democratic strongholds to "go home, sit and watch television" instead...
...recent years, there has come a curious reversal. Fundamentalist leaders who once shunned the political realm began to move forcefully into it, bearing a moral agenda for family values and school prayer, against abortion and gay rights. And Graham, in a sense, returned to the pure power of the pulpit, preaching as forcefully as ever of the need for moral renewal but without allying himself with the political activism of the religious right. "I can identify with them on theology, probably, in many areas," he says, "but in the political emphases they have, I don't, because...
COVER: God's Billy Pulpit...