Word: pulpiteering
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...would preach to them, sometimes frightening his listeners with visions of a hell where, with senses undiminished, sinners burned forever. His first chance to mount a real pulpit came when he was 14 and working at a nearby hospital; some of his black co-workers invited him to bring his Bible and give a sermon at their church. "You could see there was something haywire even at that time," says Swift. But Mrs. Kennedy's daughter Thelma Manning remembers Jones more fondly: "He had a little white shaggy-haired dog. They were inseparable. I want people to know...
...during the early '50s that Engelhard first started to turn his father's relatively modest metals business into a global powerhouse. Setting himself up as a bullion dealer in South Africa, Engelhard beat restrictions on the export of newly mined gold by manufacturing solid gold art items--solid gold pulpit tops, dishes, bracelets. Once legally exported in this manner, they would be melted down into bullion again...
...huge outdoor folk Masses and an incredible number of new church buildings), the Church's traditional role as a focus for national sentiment is being linked with that of a natural and legal focus for an alternative structure of allegiance to that of the Communist Party. While the pulpit remains uncensored, though priests sign human rights petitions and the Primate and his fellow bishops criticize the government on social issues, the regime is caught in a dilemma of choosing between semi-toleration or repression...
Just back home from a meeting with Pope Paul last fortnight, Romero ascended the pulpit of his still unfinished cathedral and unleashed one of his regular hour-long sermons about the tyranny and terror all around him. He is a small man and his voice is low-keyed, but it is strong and steady. Newspapers almost daily vilify him as corrupt, insane, as a Communist, as a man who "sells his soul to the Devil." They never print the news his sermons contain...
...pulpit or during pursuit of the clearly identifiable philistines of exorbitant indulgence, such an approach to leadership may be effective. But the recent record suggests that it can be an extremely hazardous way to run a republic that has brought the vast majority of its people undreamed-of wealth, poise and awareness...