Word: pulpiteering
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Thanks to such men of the mind as Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich and dozens more, theology has become an exciting topic again, whether in the pulpit, the meeting hall or at the luncheon table. Even among the skeptical, the Western world considers the question: Is it possible that Christianity is really true, after...
...heart of Protestantism. John Knox could hold a congregation rapt and on its feet for three hours, and Jonathan Edwards used to keep the attention of New England Congregationalists for a good two hours at a stretch. Today the model of a modern minister is expected to occupy the pulpit for a scant 20 minutes of a Sunday and put in hours on end as an amateur psychiatrist, sociologist and group-activities organizer. Yet there are still a few top-notch preachers around to keep the Protestant tradition alive...
Like any controversial public figure or institution Harvard has for centuries been the subject of vitriolic attacks from politicians, press and pulpit. In the pre-McCarthy era, these assaults spanned a wide spectrum of religious unorthodoxy, social snobbery and sexual abnormality, but since the war, the University's critics have increasingly focused on the Communist issue. In recent months, the phrases "a smelly mess" and "a haven for Fifth Amendment Communists" have mostly replaced "the swish across the Charles" and "Harvard-snob" in the public's mind...
...Plane in a Fog." This week 11,000 men and women jammed Harringay Arena for the first of Billy Graham's sessions. Some 3,000 more had to be turned away. Speaking from a sky-blue pulpit under a mammoth cube that hung from the middle of the roof with the same text on each of its four sides ("Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"), Evangelist Graham slowed down his usual machine-gun delivery for the benefit of British ears and moderated his usual platform prowl in deference to British dignity. But the message...
...half Cherokee Indian, he made up his mind to get an education and become a minister. At first his favorite theme was "Eternity-where will you spend it?" But the Depression got him interested in other themes, and in the mid '30s he was fired from his pulpit in Paris, Ark. (pop. 3,731) as too radical...