Word: pulpiteering
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...name of God," cried the Rev. James Murchison Duncan last week from his pulpit in Washington's Episcopal Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes, "I forbid you attend the flower show at the Armory...
...small farmer in Franconia, Julius Doepfner early earned a reputation as a godly activist-as likely to show up in a refugee camp or a coal mine as in his pulpit. At Würzburg he gave special attention to refugees and young people, salted church dogma with sport talk, made church land available for housing projects, started a Catholic daily...
...play's prison-cell setting is not only the pulpit for the exposition of Genet's peculiar theology. Our emotional involvement with Deathwatch comes from regarding it as a play about three men locked together closely enough so that the personality of each has the maximum opportunity to work subtly upon the others; three men racked with egotistic and homosexual tensions, preying upon each other's nerves, and driving each other towards explosions of verbal and physical violence which culminate in murder...
Venice welcomed its 44th patriarch and 139th bishop with a gala flotilla of gondolas, and Cardinal Roncalli welcomed Venice with something that sounded like a sigh of relief. In his first sermon from the pulpit of St. Mark's he said: "Do not look upon your patriarch as a politician, as a diplomat, but find in him a priest...
Author Murdoch mitigates the sordid in her story with a flow of wit that is civilized, unobtrusive and sometimes lethal. The novel achieves distinction in a series of brief sermons and reflections on the nature of God and the good that ought to make many an orthodox pulpit-pounding clergyman blush in envy. Yet the meaning of The Bell is muffled in final ambiguity, as the colony goes under in a tidal wave of newspaper scandal. With its strange but oddly exciting characters, its limpid prose, its sly wit and its ethical insight, The Bell unquestionably tolls...