Word: pulpiteering
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...denominations, with their tighter job market, congregations are hiring a different sort of pastor. Too many churches, says the Rev. George Hunter of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., "got burned during the '60s by angry young men," and hire graduates who want to perform in the pulpit rather than in the streets. When a congregation offers a "call" nowadays, notes the Rev. Vinton Bradshaw of the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the message is that "they do not want a social activist...
Following the German occupation of Hungary during World War II, Father Mindszenty harbored Jews in his palace and relentlessly denounced the Nazis from the pulpit until his arrest in 1944. After the war, Mindszenty became primate of Hungary and by 1948 was leading opposition to the Communist regime's plans to nationalize Church-operated schools and set up a Hungarian Church independent of-Rome. Offered as safe conduct out of Hungary by the government. Mindszenty refused, declaring. "God has ordained my fate and I give myself into his hands." Soon after he was arrested and tortured for 29 days before...
...same unity of purpose that cemented the colonists in their fight against England. They are the ones who would have heaped adulation on the president if--instead of intoning the virtues of producing at home and bringing liberty to the world--he had stepped out of his pulpit, walked out of the church, taken a megaphone in hand and preached a different message of the American Revolution...
...Boston, taking care to get correct the name of the battle site and the heroes involved. "Let us be true to ourselves--to our heritage and our homeland--and we will never then be false to any people or nation," he will conclude as he did in the pulpit of Old North Church, and then the whole string of motorcars, mobile kitchens, security units, press cars, and speechwriters vans will once again grind into motion, moving to its rendezvous with historical fact at the next town down the road...
...pulpit exchange inaugurated a year in which members of the two famous congregations will meet each month to discuss candidly such controversial issues as Israel, abortion, and parochial school aid. Similar dialogues have occurred in many cities, but this is the first sponsored by the Archdiocese of New York. An accompanying statement urged other local churches and synagogues to start discussions. The statement promises that Catholics will shun trying to make converts in the talks, but stops short of endorsing the Jewish position that all proselytism is wrong. Though no joint worship will be held, St. Patrick...