Word: pulpiteering
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Unrepentant Liberal. A desk man rather than a pulpit man, Hermann Morse has spent almost 40 years in the work of the National Missions Board, for the last four has been its general secretary. Modest Moderator Morse, taken a bit by surprise at being an unopposed candidate, insisted that his election was strictly a tribute to the Missions Board. Said he: "If you ever see a turtle sitting on top of a stump, you can know he didn't get there by himself." Nonetheless, it was also a personal tribute to a minister who has never had a permanent...
British, and Hertzog needed a hatchetman to denounce this "treachery." Malan quit his pulpit to become editor in chief of Cape Town's Die Buerger, an anti-Semitic daily. The title of his first editorial: "For the Glory...
...endorsed democracy, O'Neill says: "True but irrelevant; you cannot find a similar statement about any other form of government." All is well until a few paragraphs later when his argument crumbles. He states: "Political and economic questions, the topics of the day, are not discussed in the Catholic pulpit." Archbishop Cushing's recent attack on President Conant comes too easily to mind for a contention such as this. And many Catholics can narrate numerous other instances when priests, particularly in Boston, have pronounced their views on contemporary politics...
...when the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions asked him to take a leave of absence from his Harlem pulpit last year and tour Europe and Asia as an ambassador-at-large, Pastor Robinson accepted. He had something to say about his country and its churches. In interviews since he got back, and in a series of articles ending in this week's Presbyterian Life, Robinson tells how it went...
Easter Sunday morning brought a vigorous attack on President Conant for his recently stated views on private and parochial school education. Archbishop Richard J. Cushing, speaking from the pulpit of the Holy Cross Cathedral, labelled such views Fascistic...