Word: pulpiteering
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Sometimes We Need a Shove But we're not likely to spend if we don't have money. And we can't take public transit if there's none in our neighborhood. The bully pulpit has limits - Michelle Obama has literally urged us to eat our broccoli, but she can't make it taste like fudge. "I like nudges, but sometimes we need to do more," says Harvard's Mullainathan. Sometimes we need a shove. The research proves change can come about when it's easy and popular, but making it lucrative - or even mandatory - can make sure it happens...
...weeks after Atwood was killed during an SLA shootout with Los Angeles police in May 1974, Soliah used the pulpit at a Berkeley rally to issue an impassioned speech in which dubbed policemen "pigs," preached solidarity with the SLA and urged the group to "keep fighting." She joined the cause in earnest in 1975. A quarter-century later, she copped to involvement in two crimes committed that year: a bank robbery near Sacramento in which a customer, Myrna Opsahl, was fatally shot; and the planting of two pipe bombs beneath police cars. (They failed to detonate and were successfully defused...
...know that just when I got out into the big middle of everything that blasted organ cut off. I was walking—clanking—down the center aisle in hideous silence for all to see. Reverend Lewis was just sauntering up to the pulpit, oblivious to the fact that his words could have broken the stillness and saved me humiliation. He finally motioned for the crowd to rise—but that just left them standing there, in a dithering hush, with nothing to ogle but my everlasting journey down the longest aisle the Lord has ever wrought...
...priest known for his jocular demeanor (he once said Mass in a bright orange Wisconsin-cheesehead hat) and for restoring the archdiocese's reputation following a sex scandal, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, 59, is set to be the next Archbishop of New York City, perhaps the nation's most prominent pulpit. Dolan inherits the second largest archdiocese in the United States, with 2.5 million Catholics in nearly 400 churches, on April 15. Known as a staunch defender of church orthodoxy, he is succeeding retiring Cardinal Edward Egan at a crucial time: the church in New York City faces a bleak economic...
...American Cancer Society. To skeptics who conclude that the churches have played a secondary role in the success of the programs - as a mere venue for secular health counseling - Campbell points out that in her studies, the most effective pitches came not from the nutritionists but from the pulpit. "The body is a temple, and the connection was made between the physical body and religious and spiritual well-being," she says...