Word: pulpiteer
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...flying saucers and its legions of Martian midgetmen, has just about monopolized the literature of fantasy. But two new books roll out the old-fashioned magic carpet. The Visionary Novels of George Macdonald (containing two stories, Lilith and Phantasies) are by a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian who deserted the pulpit for the pen, and The Fellowship of the Ring is by J.R.R. Tolkien, a pipe-smoking, 20th century Oxford philology professor. Both books are fashioned as fairy tales for adults, and fueled by strong and unorthodox imaginations...
...boys ("You're barbarians! You're uncivilized! You're rude!"). But mostly, he has found other ways of making them stretch their minds. Every morning he has been on hand to have breakfast with them; after that, he guided them spiritually from the pulpit in chapel. He conducted his own Bible class, and in the afternoon, his dog Rani trotting at his side, he was apt to lead a group of boys into the woods for a discourse on woods lore. At dinner or at tea-or during his daily rounds through the infirmary-he would...
...smile serving as a minor sun to the shining flowers. For a moment he stood silently, "just loving the audience," as he once put it. Then the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale began to preach. He had preached the same theme many times before, not only from the pulpit but at countless business-club lunches, on TV, in newspaper columns, magazine pieces, and in a book (The Power of Positive Thinking) which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for almost two years. The Rev. Dr. Peale and his overflow audience of 2,400 were celebrating the 100th...
...central figures in the Jefferson Sags, and in the figure of Faulkner himself, painfully dedicated to the labor of reproducing this family legend, lies a clue to the Reverend High tower of Light in August and the obsession with ancestral heroism which he carried with him even to the pulpit...
...Manhattan's Park Avenue, "seems to have become the vogue in America. Church attendance is up. Church membership is growing faster than our population. Church finances are nourishing." But, he warned, this can lead to the exploitation of religion by politics, business and other interests. "Even the pulpit could be used to exploit religion rather than to explore it and expound it. We must be on guard against the tendency to use godly labels for products that are not really...