Word: pulpiteering
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...early 19th centuries was primarily that of the Methodist and Baptist kind of fervent expression of religion.'' Even in churches with strong liturgical traditions-such as the Lutherans and Episcopalians-hymns placed more emphasis upon individual piety than on praise of God. In church architecture, the pulpit replaced the altar as the focus of congregational interest...
Liturgy has brought significant changes to church architecture (TIME, Dec. 26, 1960). In Boston Unitarians are moving their pulpits from a central position to one side, placing the new focus on the Communion table. In Cincinnati's new Kenwood Baptist Church, a Communion table surmounted by a wooden Cross is at the center, with the pulpit off to one side. "This is unusual for Baptists," admits the pastor, the Rev. J. Stanley Mathews. "It's a move on our part to create a worship center and a dignified approach to worship." The First Baptist Church in Washington...
Facelift for Mammon. The Sunday paper was originally conceived as only a seventh edition of the daily press. Fiercely attacked by clergymen in its formative years-they considered it a Mammon-like rival of the pulpit-it did not succeed in establishing itself until the Civil War generated a ravenous public appetite for news and gave it permanent root. But not until Joseph Pulitzer, already the successful publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, arrived in New York in 1883 did the Sunday paper begin sprouting into the giant it is today. With sensational features, comic strips, four-color illustrations...
Great and Noble. In front of the pulpit, the body of Mister Sam lay in a bronze casket under a mantle of deep red roses. "Whatever was great and noble in his life shall abide forever," said the Rev. Bernard Braskamp, chaplain of the House. "We are not saying farewell, only good night." Elder H. G. Ball, the Primitive Baptist Church pastor who had baptized Sam Rayburn just five years ago, intoned the eulogy. Then, while the organ played America, the Beautiful, six of Mister Sam's lifelong friends carried him away...
...Raisin in the Sun, but Raisin's hero grew to recognize that in race relations, as in life, there are no short cuts, and he courageously set his face toward selfdiscipline, hard work and fair play. Purlie gains no such self-victory, and he slips into his pulpit at play's end to deliver a glib sermonette on brotherhood, which comes, like Purlie Victorious itself, from the depths of his tonsils...