Word: pulpiteering
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What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching. In its zeal to get the best for its pulpit, the church has not confined itself to Englishmen (City Temple has had four U.S. ministers and one Australian) or to Baptists and Methodists, Britain's chief nonconformist denominations; in 1917 its minister was an Anglican woman, Dr. Maude Royden...
...Tenderloin's story, with its uneasy shifts from pulpit to police court and from the choir loft to the girls, upstairs, needs much more adroit handling than it gets. Again and again, gaiety is left waiting at the church door, and even sin turns tedious when it is allowed to talk. More and more, as virtue and decorum triumph, interest flags, color fades, and toughness is deprived of its teeth...
...future of theater at Harvard. He considered it possible and even probable that Harvard, given the means, might become center to which the young and talented would repair to train themselves for the stage as they have in the past to train themselves for the bar or pulpit or the scholar's life or the director's or the politician's. But at the one time that he expressed this hope, Chapman accepted and supported the faculty view that there should be schools or department of drama at Harvard and that no formal teaching dramatic arts and should be offered...
...religion debate spread from pulpit to press to public. Some comments...
...years Dr. Peale, from the pulpit, in his syndicated column and in his books had championed a saccharine philosophy, far removed from bigotry. It was a distinct shock not only to Catholics but to many non-Catholics to see him lined up with, and offering leadership to, the forces of prejudice, the agents of hate...