Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reveals everything worth knowing about the black man's view of himself in 20th century white America. It also reveals much about James Baldwin himself. He is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a Negro leader. He tries no civil rights cases in the courts, preaches from no pulpit, devises no stratagems for sit-ins, Freedom Riders or street marchers. He published an essay in 1959 called Nobody Knows My Name, and four years later, in Birmingham and Harlem, and in all the Birminghams and Harlems in the nation and the world, most Negroes still do not know...
...Jerrold Gibson '51 has been acting minister of Memorial Church since 1960, and various visiting ministers have filled the pulpit from time to time...
...rector of Trinity Church in Boston, called the job of University preacher "one of the most challenging in the country." Ferris said he had been offered the position shortly after Buttrick's departure, but that he had refused it because he wanted to remain at his Trinity Church pulpit, where he has served for 20 years...
...Greater Boston Ministerial Alliance, which represents the major churches in Roxbury and the South End, has put its full weight behind the BAG campaign. From his pulpit last Sunday, Rev. George Thomas of St. Marks Church told his Roxbury congregation: "Now the people of our community must tell them that it isn't possible for Negroes to continue to buy Wonder Bread until they find it possible to hire the 12 people we requested...
Ferris, one of the most respected preachers in the Episcopal Church today and currently a Visiting Scholar at Union Theological School in New York, explained that his chief consideration in turning down the Memorial Church pulpit had been his own job at Trinity Church, where he has served some 20 years. Also, however, he pointed out some of the dangers that he felt he would have encountered in an interdenominational and academic church community...