Word: pulpiteering
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...Founded in 1871, it was once the most fashionable parish in town. The families who lived on "the Heights" were well-to-do, and the house of worship they built at 120 Summit Avenue was a monument to their generosity. The stained-glass windows were by Tiffany; the altar, pulpit and lectern were of the best Carrara marble...
...From the pulpit of Memorial Church, the Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson ('51) raked the Crimson for "a spirit of bitter denunciation." Psychiatrist Carl Binger fired off an angry letter: "Your six diatribes against Mr. Pusey betray not only bad taste, but also bad faith." A Saintly Dedication. Only a Crimson cub could say that mighty Harvard is foundering under Iowa-born Historian Pusey, 55, himself a Harvardman ('28), who was president of Wisconsin's little Lawrence College when he was named Harvard's 24th president in 1953. Pusey has shown, says one professor, "the dedication...
...congregation of 500. Merriam doubled the church's property, added 100 parishioners to the congregation, put on an impressive range of new youth activities-and began to create a reputation for unorthodoxy. Although fundamentalist in his theology, he was a political liberal who spoke out in the pulpit against Virginia's racial segregation. His orations were notable for their scholarship-and for their shock value. Once he was photographed at a church bazaar sitting backwards on a donkey and wearing a Japanese lantern...
...after a two-year search for a minister, Broadway Presbyterian's congregation voted to "call" (invite) Merriam as their next pastor. Despite misgivings about his fundamentalism, the presbytery approved the choice and almost immediately found reasons to regret it. Merriam brought his huge German shepherd Blitz into the pulpit at a children's service. He earned a brief notoriety by tape-recording a telephone conversation with a State Department official about the problems of an exile from Iran, then playing the tape-including the official's off-the-cuff criticisms of Iranian corruption-to a reporter. Merriam...
...church of the catacombs." Barth himself believes his work contains "a missionary call." It provides no easy, immediate, specific answers to man's daily worries-but summons him to learn that all questions are ultimately theological, and that the ultimate theological answer has been given. Translated into elementary pulpit talk, Karl Barth's rich and complex theology might appear to resemble the exhortations issued...