Word: pulpiteer
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...John's (membership 45). This nimble quick-change act taxes none of Steinmetz' doctrinal convictions. He must be wary only not to lapse into the formalized liturgy of the Episcopal Church on the premises of the freer, more evangelical Congregational Church. "When I enter the Congregational pulpit," says he, "I become a Congregationalist-and vice versa...
Each week 4,000-odd letters like these pour into the office of plain-speaking Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of the National Radio Pulpit. Rated by volume of fan mail. Methodist Sockman of Park Avenue's swank Christ Church is No. 1 Protestant radio pastor of the U.S.* Since good, grey, Congregationalist S. Parkes Cadman pioneered the field in 1923, radio religion has become a national institution, is preached to an estimated congregation of ten million...
...Then a fourth, a rattler, bit him on the finger. He brought his arm up and the snake was hanging by his fangs in Lewis' finger. He went on preaching for ten minutes and he got a good victory over the serpent. The snake was laying over the pulpit like he was dead when Lewis stepped down...
...enjoyed your sermon very much." Countless beamingly polite churchgoers so inform their preachers every Sunday. Last week the Rev. Robert E. Woods, veteran preacher of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, took the wind out of their sails. Said he, from the pulpit: "Sermons are not intended to be enjoyed [but] to instruct, to inspire ... to make you uneasy about yourself. Any sermon that doesn't do that has misfired...
Good Soldier Omar Bradley mounted the pulpit in the Central Christian Church of Moberly, Mo. Flyer Jimmy Doolittle flew his first Superfortress. Georgie Patton went to Sunday school; Carl Spaatz visited his 78-year-old mother (who told him: "You're just my baby boy"); leathery Alexander Patch brought back the gaudiest trophy yet: gewgawful Marshal Goring's diamond-studded marshal's baton...