Word: pulpiteering
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...northeast in the small village of Grebnevo, a stocky, balding priest named Dmitri Dudko will assist at local services. Dudko, 56, is one of the most celebrated preachers in his country. But even in Grebnevo he is the second-ranking priest and will not be in the pulpit. He has been assigned to the town as a kind of ecclesiastical banishment. Yet it is Dudko, not Patriarch Pimen, who has come to symbolize Christianity's will to survive in the officially godless nation. As much as any man in the Soviet Union, he has borne effective witness...
...matter that his best years were gone; the fighter was back working at his craft. His championship had been a bully pulpit, and he eagerly sought it once more. The Muslims had softened their separatist hard line, and with that there was less raw, reverse-racism talk from Ali. Finally Ali reclaimed his crown in Kinshasa, Zaïre. George Foreman, the hardest puncher since Sonny Listen, spent himself pounding Muhammad Ali ceaselessly?and uselessly?on the ropes one early African morning. Ali again was the underdog, but it was his galvanic personality that drew the attention of the world...
That the church has been a pious fraud for centuries is no secret. What can more cogently point to its abnegation of moral authority than a serious consideration among the clergy of whether homosexuals can, apparently in good conscience, aspire to the pulpit? Why not prostitutes, too? After all, some of them may be "Christian believers...
...most spectacular and prosperous of the new centers, however, also grew out of the Jesus Movement: Chuck Smith's Calvary Church downstate in Costa Mesa, Calif. A liberal writer in Christian Century snaps that the church "churns out ignorance and hysteria," but in the pulpit Smith is actually a balding Everyman, leading hymns with only modest gestures and offering unvarnished Bible lectures accompanied by a disarmingly broad smile. "People come here because God is explained to them in a way they can understand," says Smith. They can also understand Christianity in action. Calvary sponsors homes for separated wives...
...Britain's 150-member Council of Churches has issued a joint declaration warning that "our traditional ideas of tolerance and respect are being eroded." The Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference has put forth a similar statement. Church officials are now urging ministers to attack the front from the pulpit and to ask parishioners to sign an "affirmation" that "the racial policies and activities of the National Front, and other similar bodies, are contrary to the truth of the Gospel...