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...World's Worst." The drinking had begun. During a college vacation at home he barged into St. John's Episcopal church during a Christmas service, staggered up to the pulpit and casually said to the rector: "Don't mind me, go on with the sermon." It was the first of many Fitzgerald toots that made the papers. From Princeton, in 1917, he went into the Army, never got overseas, but left a reputation at Fort Leavenworth as "the world's worst second lieutenant." In the Army he wrote his first novel, which was rejected by Scribner...
...Negro boys & girls tried to register at five grade schools and two junior high schools. Gill organized his fellow ministers to supervise the demonstration and prevent trouble. When crosses in the Ku Klux Klan tradition were burned on the riverfront to intimidate the Negroes, Gill's pulpit denunciation, and a newspaper statement which 17 other ministers signed, were the only voices in Alton raised publicly in opposition...
Must a successful church have an outstanding minister? He must certainly be a "good minister," say the editors, and must work at it for a "considerable number of years." But pulpit fireworks are not necessary; "only three of the ministers in these [twelve] churches are outstanding as preachers." In U.S. Protestant churches, according to the Century's editors, there is no lack of pastoral care. In fact, they suggest, there is a bit too much "service" at the expense of the people's need "to hear the word of the Lord proclaimed in contemporary power." One reason...
Worshipers at the cathedral of Notre Dame last Easter were shocked by a young man in the robes of a Dominican monk, who stormed the pulpit and shouted "God is dead!" (TIME, April 17). Paris psychiatrists took him over from the police for examination and the current issue of the English-language literary journal, Transition, carries the psychiatrists' report. Samples of the report's psychiatric word-weaving...
Fists & Gasps. Visitor Fradier divides U.S. religion into the "hots" and the "lukewarms." The "lukewarm" services, he says, consist of "hymns sung to military marches composed by fierce Scots," or, for contrast, bucolic Bavarian waltzes. The form of the sermon, he says, never varies. "The [minister] leans on the pulpit and begins in a low voice, indistinct, sleepy. Slowly he becomes animated. He slips a hand in a pocket and tells an anecdote, two, three anecdotes, until the audience consents to smile a little. Then his tone warms up, the face of the orator turns purple, his voice becomes husky...