Word: pulpiteering
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...return. Jackson asked Walker if Canaan was available and Walker said yes, but only for a "service of penance" during which Jackson would make a public apology. But as he wrote in a letter to Jackson that was later made public by the Village Voice, Jackson "disrespected me, my pulpit and my people" by turning the event into a media circus, complete with pro-Jackson speeches by politicians like Congressman Charles Rangel. Jackson sent Walker a letter apologizing for "any error in judgment and communication," and Walker accepted it. Privately, he grumbles that "it wasn't much of an apology...
Silence in the Pulpit...
...nearly two years I have listened on the radio to Rev. Gomes’s sermons each Sunday at Memorial Church and have often admired them. In the last month he has not spoken on this subject from his pulpit, I believe; nor has he expressed his views in The Crimson, except for a brief visit to the protesters to deliver his greetings and a call for a peaceful resolution on April...
...think each person brings different things to the job. I think it’s harder today to use the presidency as a bully pulpit than it was twenty years ago,” Huidekoper says...
...According to Rudenstine, there has been a historical shift in the meaning of the bully pulpit in relation to university presidencies. Over the last 50 years, he says, the number of institutions of higher education has rapidly increased...