Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atheist, he was ordained in 1955, won quick notoriety and ecclesiastical disapproval by hearing "informal" confessions in bars and writing plays peppered with cuss words. He maintains that "you've got to begin with people where they are" and feels that a bar stool can be an effective pulpit...
...have been friends since their teaching days together at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary 20 years ago. Myers' work in slum and Negro areas of Jersey City, New York and Chicago has won him the reputation of being more at home in the asphalt jungle than the pulpit. He and his wife Katie Lea had no children, but they adopted a Negro boy (now grown up and in the Peace Corps) and two Koreans. Myers has been in Michigan since 1965, took part in last year's Selma march...
...civil-righteous pastor-and when congregational policy allows it, they sometimes do so. In the Boston suburb of Newton, the Rev. Frank Weiskel of the First Congregational Church was dismissed soon after he and a visiting Negro minister sang We Shall Overcome from the pulpit. Last February, the Rev. William Youngdahl of Omaha's Augustana Lutheran Church was forced to resign his charge after congregants protested his involvement in local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left his church, after being repeatedly urged by parishioners to stick to the work...
...Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned pulpit-thumping sermons and turned to the long-range task of convincing their parishioners by indirection and example-a harder strategy, perhaps, but one that in the long run may prove more successful...
...first Negrostaffed and directed bank, now only a year-and-a-half old, Freedom National Bank is a symbol of what Negroes can do to help themselves, according to the president of the bank, William F. Hudgins. Hudgins feels that going to the people by taking to the pulpit is a legitimate tactic in his crusade to bring full banking service to a community where discrimination in the money market is one of its many economic handicaps. He hopes not only to gain new accounts for the bank, but to modernize the churchgoers' primitive financial habits. Many have never seen...