Word: pulpiteering
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...Hope, N.C., Presbyterian Pastor Charles M. Jones of Chapel Hill lost a final battle with the Orange Presbytery, which had removed him from his pulpit for showing too little regard for Presbyterian doctrine (TIME, Feb. 23). Announced Jones, after the Presbytery voted down his request for a change-of-venue appeal: he was resigning from the church's ministry. "I cannot place dogma above Christianity ... I believe [the Christian's] first loyalty is not to his denomination but to the church universal...
...Pulpit is the place where irritating mannerisms dog the most conscientious. Some of the commonest: "Leaning on the pulpit . . . using one's handkerchief like a mop . . . dropping one's voice to a whisper for effect . . . crouching, with knees bent, as if to make a spring; 'making faces...
...Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee took the pulpit in the Central Park Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. and touched on the mission of politics: "The politics of any situation we get into is only the means by which we should seek to achieve the religious ends for which we are put here on this earth ... A nation which can breed atom bombs surely can breed atomic ideals. I say we must...
...graduated (summa cum laude), married Florence Whitney, a Worcester, Mass, manufacturer's daughter, and took a pastorate at the First Baptist Church in Montclair, N.J. For the next eleven years, First Baptist grew and flourished under his magnetic pulpit, and Harry Fosdick grew with it. Each morning at 9 he shut himself up in an unmarked office and spent three hours soaking up philosophy and literature in preparation for his Sunday sermons. Christian behavior, not doctrine, was what he preached; he was against materialism and sin, and for the righteous life. But though what...
This was one place in sinful Harlem where God was in command: "The saints, arriving, had rented this abandoned store and taken out the fixtures; had painted the walls and built a pulpit, moved in a piano and camp chairs, and bought the biggest Bible they could find. They put white curtains in the show window, and painted across this window, TEMPLE OF THE FIRE BAPTIZED. Then they were ready to do the Lord's work...