Word: pulpiteering
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...Germans respect Dibelius as they have respected few churchmen, past or present. Standing in the Marienkirche pulpit, vested in a black, three-quarter length Luther Rock (coat), he preaches to them in the blunt Gospel language of a Reformation patriarch. A stiffly mannered figure with a face made more impressive by a natural tonsure, small sharp eyes and a heavy, bristling goatee, he is also clothed in the dignity which Prussians think a Herr Bischof ought to have...
...long before the Nazis began open warfare against religion. In rigged elections, they pushed pro-Nazi clergymen into positions of authority in the provincial Lutheran churches. Pastor Martin Niemöller was arrested when he spoke out against their anti-Semitism from his pulpit. Dibelius preached from Niemöller's church in Dahlem the following Sunday, and was soon on trial himself. Although acquitted by an old-fashioned judge, he was suspended from his position as general superintendent of the Kurmark church district. Still, he kept up a stouthearted resistance. Once Albert Kerrl, Nazi Minister for Church Affairs...
Confident Faith. The great lesson which German Protestants have learned, under Otto Dibelius' pastorship, is that they can no longer take their church and their faith for granted. The Lutheran fortress is under sharp attack. As Otto Dibelius prepares to mount the pulpit in the Marienkirche for his Easter-Sunday service, he can ponder the latest news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers...
...foreign and domestic missionaries the church supports in full. His popular Sunday sermons are still cut to the measure which Pastor Straton laid down when he began his broadcasts 30 years ago. "The people will not get any doubts or negations or question marks from the Calvary pulpit," Straton promised. "I shall try to continue to do my part, as the Bible expresses it, in tearing down the strongholds of Satan...
Mather's ambition to seat a conservative was continued by the equally conservative and egocentric Rev. Joshua Gee 1717, his successor in the pulpit. Gee and Edward Holyoke, 1705, both sought the post, vacated when Wadsworth died in office...