Word: pulpiteering
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Problems at the Pulpit...
Last week, in press and pulpit, in barroom and barbershop, in the family parlor and the public park, the British people voiced their sympathy, their shock, their approval, their disapproval, or their angry impatience at the whole affair. The circumstances were becoming familiar enough to permit a few small and very English jokes about it. In a Punch cartoon, an impressionable child thoughtfully counted the peas on her plate to the words, "Tinker, tailor, soldier, group captain." A BBC comedian asked his straight man to read the day's news. "They had tea together again," intoned the other...
...South Africa, the Roman Catholic Church committed itself to all-out opposition to the Bantu Education Act, through which the white supremacy Nationalist government is taking over mission schools by cutting off subsidies for teachers. The church launched an appeal from every pulpit for a fund of $1,120,000 to carry the full load of teacher salaries and keep open the schools, which now have 120,000 black pupils. From Rome came the Pope's personal support: "I pray for the success of the Catholic bishops' campaign, and with all my heart I bless all those...
Protestantism will step out of the pulpit and into the street this fall, giving students in "Humanities 127" the chance to see how modern religion relates to various forms of secular culture. University Professor Tillich will give "Religron and Culture," his first course at the College, in Semitic Museum...
...Jones describes-and they can do so on the basis of Psychiatrist Jones's own evidence. There is no denying that Freud needed all the maturity he could muster in the first years of the 20th century. After years of obscurity, he became a world figure, denounced from pulpit and scientific platform alike as a menace to morality, a threat to religion and even to civilization itself...