Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusk's father was an ordained Presbyterian minister who had to give up the pulpit because a throat ailment kept him from preaching. At the time Dean was born, the fourth of five children, the elder Rusk was scratching a living as a rural schoolteacher and a small cotton farmer in Cherokee County. When Dean was four, his father got a job as a mail carrier in Atlanta, and the family moved to a frame house on Whitehall Street, just beyond the edge of the Negro district. The children wore underwear made at home out of flour sacks, often...
...Skillfully but not trickily panning across the pictures from face to face, scene to scene, Producer-Director Donald Hyatt achieves a unique sense of motion and drama. Gradually, the life of Christ (to the Sermon on the Mount) is told more effectively than it ever could be from a pulpit...
...U.S.A. and onetime president (1954-57) of the National Council of Churches, Dr. Blake was in San Francisco for the National Council's fifth triennial general assembly. He had been invited by California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike to be guest preacher at the pulpit of Grace Cathedral. When he sat down to think out his sermon about six weeks ago, it turned into a preachment that may well be a landmark in Protestant history...
What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching. In its zeal to get the best for its pulpit, the church has not confined itself to Englishmen (City Temple has had four U.S. ministers and one Australian) or to Baptists and Methodists, Britain's chief nonconformist denominations; in 1917 its minister was an Anglican woman, Dr. Maude Royden...
...Damn the Sultan!" No one knows when City Temple began, but in 1640 Dissenter Thomas Goodwin, later chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, was holding regular services. It was not until 1873 that it began to attract its biggest audiences. To hear the "pulpit genius," Dr. Joseph Parker, actors, authors, artists and bohemians pressed into City Temple alongside primmer Victorians. Preacher Parker often rewarded them with a shocker; when, during the Turkish-Armenian hostilities, he thundered. "I say God damn the Sultan!'', the newspapers headlined: DR. PARKER LETS HIMSELF...