Word: pulpiteering
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...ROSH HASHANAH, the Jewish New Year. The scene is a middle-class. Brookline synagogue, but it probably could be one of any number of temples around the United States. The voice from the pulpit is determined, and as the speech continues, it becomes deeply passionate and, at times, strident...
...learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." So begins an early (1643) manifesto of Harvard's aims; in those days, it was a rare graduate indeed who did not take to the pulpit once his sheepskin was secured...
Faster than a hungry agent! More identifiable in cape than collar! Now able to deliver long sermons in a single breath! Look! Up in the pulpit! It's a man! It's a priest! It's Christopher Reeve not playing Superman! In Monsignor, the Man of Steel quick-changes to become a man of the cloth. Reeve, 29, plays an Irish Catholic priest from New York's Lower East Side who rises to become a Cardinal. The actor, a lapsed Episcopalian, spent seven weeks taking Catholic instruction from Paulist priests. For one location scene in Sicily...
...clients are excited about the challenge of building a church and attracting more people," says Cooper. "Nowadays, congregations want to participate actively in the liturgy-to sing more, to move more, to celebrate. They don't want spaces that confine them merely to listening to the pulpit and organ. They want spaces that give them a sense of community and freedom...
During the Vietnam War, the school's faculty turned to the pulpit again, making political speeches that opposed the war from an ethical and religious standpoint. Williams often "stood up in the pulpit and accepted burned draft cards," Adams reminisces...