Word: pulpiteering
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...workers proved to be yet another government blunder. The subsequent trials of about 100 rioters served to unite workers, intellectuals, students and the still powerful Roman Catholic Church against the regime. In a recent sermon, Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, 75, the revered Primate of Poland, lamented from the pulpit that "it is painful when workers must struggle for their rights from a workers' government...
...Harvard Law School. "I wanted to be the black Clarence Darrow...I was going to start freeing all the people who didn't belong in jail," he says. Impressed with the sermons he heard at Appleton Chapel and Memorial Church here, Blue decided he might help people from the pulpit, and enrolled in Yale Divinity School. But while preaching a funeral sermon there, Blue realized that the ministry was not his calling. "I suddenly realized what a mystery life is, and that I didn't have any ready answers for these people," Blue says. Several years later, he completed...
Carter followed this curious intermingling of pulpit and locker-room language with, "Christ says don't consider yourself better than someone else because one guy screws a whole bunch of women while the other guy is loyal to his wife." The comments came after the interview apparently had ended and Carter was standing at the doorway of his home, seemingly unable to shut either the door or his mouth...
...project has already cost $50 million, and it will require at least $12 million more. By Washington-style accounting, that works out to be little more than half of a B-l bomber or a few miles of interstate highway. Dean Sayre, who often uses his carved Gothic stone pulpit to promote social justice, makes no apologies for the expense. "You're not competing with the poor for a dollar," he has said. "You're building something in order to use it. The instrument and the using of the instrument are equally important...
Even the ministry, perhaps the most steadfastly male profession in the Colonies, has felt the impact of women. In most denominations, women's place is still in the pew rather than the pulpit, but there are a few notable exceptions. The most remarkable is Mother Ann Lee. "Ann the Word," as she is called, left England with a small band of followers in 1774 and is now establishing a religious community at Nistegaone, New York. The American Shakers-so named because of the tumultuous singing, dancing, shaking and shouting at their services-regard Mother Ann, who reportedly...