Word: pulpiteering
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...Episcopal minister assumed the pulpit in Memorial Church yesterday morning with a pledge "to explore and develop the long and continuous tradition of free worship which is the precious heritage of this place...
...last real lynch killing that the U.S. has known was that of Mississippi Negro Mack Charles Parker in 1959. Says the N.A.A.C.P.'s Wilkins: "We have completely changed the thinking of the country on lynching. At one time it was defended in the Senate, and even in the pulpit. There is no comparison now with the fear we once knew...
...promise a sermon on Honest to God can be almost certain that they will have a standing-room-only congregation. "I've been a priest for over 50 years," says Dr. J.W.C. Wand, former Bishop of London, "and never has it been easier to talk theology from the pulpit...
Meeting in New York City last month, the general board of the National Council of Churches entered into soul-searching discussion of the role its members should play in the nation's civil rights struggle. Were pulpit pronouncements enough? Could the Christian conscience be satisfied by mere pious expressions of sympathy for the Negro? One who thought not was the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, executive head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.'s general assembly, former president of the National Council and one of the U.S.'s most respected clergymen (TIME cover...
...Letters denouncing him poured into the Justice Department. The New York Times sharply rapped him for his "ancient and outworn views" and his softness toward anarchists. Said Palmer later: "I was shouted at from every editorial sanctum in America from sea to sea; I was preached upon from every pulpit; I was urged-I could feel it dinned into my ears-to do something...