Word: pulpiteering
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...preached from the pulpit the doctrine and the teachings of his beloved faith with the same fiery zeal and uncompromising ardor that he now uses to denounce dishonesty and bigotry wherever he finds them...
...which he helped build to a membership of 14,000, one of the largest Protestant congregations in the country. Kenneth Clark, the black social psychologist, recalled: "When, as a child, I first saw him, I thought he was God." He retired in 1937 and young Adam stepped into his pulpit, staying there until April...
...City Councilman Howard Carwile denounce progressive Governor Linwood Holton as "gutless, spineless, no good," a man who made him "think of euthanasia." The Rev. John Spong, the esteemed rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a cousin of Democratic U.S. Senator William Spong Jr., took to the pulpit last week to label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong as an "ecclesiastical lickspittle," he added: "When I look at some spiritually anemic preachers, I think of embalming fluid." Inevitably, Carwile's tasteless demagoguery...
...people of Harvard Square for twenty five years, was the first to make me aware of the need for a wider ministry, including all varieties of people with every imaginable background and belief. Furthermore, those who are aware of my work know that I have publicly stated in the pulpit and in open gatherings that our ministry at St. Paul's is, by design and in practice, directed to the whole Catholic community in Harvard Square...
Mary Daly, Boston College theologian and the first woman to speak from the pulpit of Memorial Church, notes in her book The Church and the Second Sex that women within the women's liberation movement tend to be ex-Catholics and are vehement in their opposition to what they see as strangling and repressive social roles in large part perpetrated by a celibate male Church leadership. In partial disagreement with women liberationists both Mary Daly and Ann Kelley see the Catholic tradition as being strong and deep enough to embrace new definitions of being a woman. Ann Kelley notes with...