Word: pulpiteering
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...Great to be with you," says the beaming, blue-blazered man in the pulpit. "Great to be alive." "Amen," agrees the sturdy, prosperous crowd of Texans, the men in natty suits and white shoes, the women in beehive hairdos. "Great to be an American," continues the voice from the pulpit. ("Amen.") "Greatest of all to be a Christian." ("Amen.") "Born again." ("Amen...
...late Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the pulpit at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church served as a launching platform for an often influential, always controversial 24-year career in Congress. Now the believers at Abyssinian have elected a new pastor, but he vows to succeed Powell only in the pulpit. "I have no political ambitions," says the Rev. Dr. Samuel Proctor, 51. "A church needs care from a dynamic pastor who has the membership at heart." Proctor, however, has a few involvements of his own. He plans to keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American...
...detecting illness; several reputable doctors in the area bring patients to her for diagnostic clues. Her information, in true spiritualist tradition, comes from "spirit guides," friendly sources on the "spirit side" who offer secret information to the "earth plane." On Sundays, standing in a pink chiffon dress in her pulpit, Bonnie will call out, "I want to talk to the lady in the pretty white dress. Those on the spirit side tell me to pass on to you a message not to worry about your lower back." To another woman: "Your husband has applied for a new job. They tell...
...does it, but only just. He has not gone to the marketplace in Birmingham the way he has in Moscow. He has not seriously surveyed the suburbs of St. Louis, the Harlem ghetto, the abandoned farms of southern Iowa. He has never fully used the President's "bully pulpit" for moral leadership, and he has rarely moved the American people in the way that, from all reports, he moved many Russians when he delivered his farewell speech in Moscow. Is he ill at ease with U.S. audiences? Or does his somewhat artificial rhetoric sound better in Russian...
...DAYS began to brighten the dreary walls of lava stone buildings. Merchants reported a rush on licorice drops, peanuts, chewing gum, after-dinner mints and other tobacco substitutes. A man of God?his own flesh too weak to relinquish the weed completely?preached a sermon of support from his pulpit in the town's basilica. "I am not one of the courageous 155," acknowledged Father Leon Dumas. "But I have rationed myself down from ten to five cigarettes...