Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unlike Moore, Jarecki never inserts himself into his film or uses his camera as a bully pulpit. “Why We Fight” is shot in a straightforward documentary style—interviews interspersed with archival footage—and Jarecki demonstrates integrity by interviewing his ideological opponents with the same dignity and thoughtfulness he affords his allies...
...make his message more accessible, Christie rarely wears a dog collar and refuses to deliver his Sunday sermons from the raised stone pulpit in the church, preferring instead to speak from a lectern that's at the same height as the congregation. But "there's a tension between what I will and will not do," Christie says. "We are not a religious version of Tesco," the British supermarket chain. That means Whitney Houston songs at funerals are acceptable, but New Age drumming groups in the church hall or Buddhist marriage vows are not. "We're out there competing with everyone...
...Pulpit Patrol Re Andrew Sullivan's essay "The Vatican's New Stereotype": I am sorry about Pope Benedict XVI's rules excluding gay men from the priesthood [Dec. 12]. But they are not the first Catholics to be identified and told that "regardless of how they behave or what they do, they are beneath serving God" as priests. That distinction belongs to women. Lynn Mostafa Salinas, California...
...nonviolence, and King gave her his highest award and I think he recognized her, but at the same time, she was kind of trampled and lost and neglected, and not appreciated. He knew that she was doing pioneer things, and that the women did, but the tradition of pulpit leadership was so male and that standard, he was just comfortable with that...
...believe in preachy games,” he said.Why, then, make a company that markets itself and its games so explicitly as Christian? “I felt that God had called me to do Biblically based games,” he said. “My pulpit is not at a church—it’s right here at this desk.”LEISURE TIMEBagley’s desk is not the only one that’s functioning as a pulpit. His games are only one part of a broader movement of Christians...