Word: pulpiteering
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...pulpit committee, unable to agree on any candidate, appointed a five-man subcommittee under the chairmanship of Lawyer T. Justin Moore. "I told them I'd take it," Moore recalls, "only if they'd authorize us to go out and hire the best Baptist preacher in the U.S., regardless of where we found...
...first memory is of sitting with his mother in the little Baptist Church in his native Palmyra, N.Y. "and looking out there and seeing my father in the pulpit, preaching to the congregation, and thinking what a wonderful thing that...
...inheritance and a scholar by nature. Her mother, a girl from Jersey City, is described as "a charming and soignee woman." The family was conservative, but there was a theatrical taint in the blood. Julie's great-grandfather had a longing to tread the boards, but mounted the pulpit instead. He became the second Episcopal bishop of Michigan...
...vicar of the church of Saint Mary's the Great, official church of Cambridge University, arranged for Billy to use his pulpit. Though regretting CICCU's "exclusive attitude" of noncooperation with other religious bodies, he explained: "We must continue to help them when we can, providing we are not expected to commit intellectual hara-kiri...
...Harringay Arena. There was no singing, no platform to pace, no lapel microphone,' no special lighting. Dressed in a black academic gown with the red, green and gold hood of an honorary doctor of laws (Houghton College, N.Y., '50), he stood in the cramped quarters of the pulpit before a crowd of 1,200 which had left behind an overflow queue two blocks long. When he began to speak, probably no more than 10% of them were wholeheartedly for him. But Billy's face never lost its smile...