Word: pulpiteering
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Bulky, erudite Jim McCord has been called a "theologian's theologian" (among the schools he attended: the University of Texas, Union Theological Seminary, Edinburgh's New College), is nevertheless a direct and positive talker, more popular in class than in the pulpit. He has strong ideas about everything. Examples: Missions: "A Gothic cathedral would look strange on a desert, and one can be a Christian without being a westerner. A lot has been said about demythologizing Christianity; well, in missionary work it needs to be deculturized...
Four out of five Protestant ministers in 17 Southern states are in favor of complying with the Supreme Court order to mix Negro and white children in public schools, according to the results of a poll published this week by the nondenominational monthly, Pulpit Digest...
Dress Rite. In Walhalla, S.C., 37 members of the Rider Mountain Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church went to court asking for the reinstatement of their pastor, the Rev. Haskell Lee, who had been unfrocked for wearing a necktie in the pulpit...
This battle of the sexes was not won without a struggle. "Pregnant preachers would be unseemly in the pulpit," said some of the traditionalists when the subject came up at the church convention last year. "Less so than fat, smug male priests," countered the feminists. When the convention vetoed the reform, the press kept up the pressure until Parliament convened a special church assembly of 45 clergymen and 57 laymen to reconsider the matter. When it came to the vote last week, it was 69 to 29 for the women...
...where were they? Instead of a throng of putative priestesses, there seemed to be hardly any women who wanted the job; 75% of the 152 female theology students at Uppsala University were against having women in the pulpit. At week's end one candidate came forward-pretty, blonde Britta Olen, 30, daughter of a vicar and already fully qualified for ordination. Scheduled to be married by year's end and to do mission work in South Africa with her missionary husband, she hopes she will find a bishop to ordain her before she leaves...