Word: pulpiteering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this was academic, Dr. Barnes's next move was not. When the congregation of Central North Broad Church announced it would follow Dr. Machen, Central North Broad was promptly locked up. Moderator Barnes declared its pulpit vacant, announced he would furnish a supply pastor on Sunday, ruled that, according to a U. S. Supreme Court decision, the church belonged not to the congregation but to the General Assembly. To those edicts the Machenites bowed. On Sunday 700 of Central North Broad's members worshipped with their pastor in Lu Lu Temple...
...were not likely to inculcate any comfortable doctrine into Anglo-Catholic minds. But after looking through this collection readers could see that Poet Eliot had let himself be guided by his artistic conscience: the book contained many a passage that the Archbishop of Canterbury would not read from the pulpit. Sample: The Hippopotamus, generally taken as a satire on the Church...
...president, Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, and its wiry lit tle British-born secretary, Professor Harry Frederick Ward of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. For 29 years the Federation has sniped at Capitalism with out attracting much attention. Last week, however, Hearstpapers were headlining PURGE OF PULPIT REDS DEMANDED as 75 members of the Federation sat down to a preConference meeting in Columbus. Conscious of suc cess in the past in getting Methodist conferences to give at least lip service to liberalism, the Federation presented to the Columbus gathering a memorial denouncing "profit-seeking economy." In turn...
...chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being and both natures have been equally affected by the Fall. His body is exposed to disease, his soul corrupted...
...General Farley suddenly to take notice of what had been mushrooming under his nose since last summer, it was Protestant Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of Manhattan. One Sunday last month prim little Bishop Manning left his cathedral on Morningside Heights, drove downtown to deliver a sermon from the pulpit of socialite St. Bartholomew's on Park Avenue. Topic of his preachment was lotteries and he was against them...