Word: pulpiteering
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...always, there is Auden modestly on the stump, or in the pulpit, but steadily aware of the dangers of pontificating. In the title poem, he invokes his Age of Anxiety themes, then introduces a second voice to cut himself down: "What fun and games you find it to play/ Jere-miah-cum-Juvenal . . ." Suddenly yet a third voice yawns: "Go to sleep now for God's sake!/ You both will feel better by breakfast time...
Such, ferment in the seminaries indicates that the church has any number of options. The suggestions from the schools?and from ghetto, pulpit and cloister?are broad: team ministries, part-time ministries, specialized ministries; elaborate celebrations, informal rituals; large, united churches, small groups. Some forms that now seem incompatible may well come to live side by side. Most of them are already being tested by ministers even...
...peace march, braving the jeers of hard-hatted steamfitters who tried to stage a counterdemonstration. The peace marchers jammed into a memorial service at Trinity Church, where Investment Banker Andre Meyer, Ogden Corp. Chairman Ralph Ablon and other high executives read the names of war dead from the pulpit...
...father of the public relations industry and adviser to the Rockefeller family. Lee published Fosdick's 1922 sermon under the title of "The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith," and arranged to have it and subsequent homilies widely distributed. When John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered Fosdick the pulpit at the fashionable Park Avenue Baptist Church in 1925, the controversial preacher at first refused. "I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country," he said in an exchange that has become famous. Answered Rockefeller: "Do you think that more people will criticize...
...great church rarely had empty seats when Fosdick took the pulpit. His messages reached others across the nation by way of 32 books and a long-lived Sunday radio series. Fosdick's eloquent "life-situation preaching," which incisively related modern theology to everyday situations, was hardly spontaneous. He shut himself off from callers each day to compose his highly literate discourses replete even with articulate jokes that friends called "Fosdickettes." As he observed: "A last-minute sermon preparer is not doing a good job or giving the congregation what it deserves...