Word: pulpiteering
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...Star Is Born. After a year at St. Paul Seminary, Sheen was ordained in 1919, then did two years' graduate work at Catholic University. In Washington, he made his debut in the pulpit. The priest who was supposed to preach one Sunday at a Washington church had to leave town because of illness in the family, and asked Sheen to substitute for him. Fearing that the church's pastor would think he was too young, Sheen did not present himself at the rectory till five minutes before Mass was supposed to start. The pastor said gruffly: "Get over...
...Each pulpit gesture in deft dumb-show
...Bartholomew Wyngate stood in the pulpit, outwardly poised, looking at the comfortable, wealthy members of his Brooklyn Heights congregation. They loved and admired him as a good preacher and model citizen. They had no more idea than Pastor Wyngate in that year, 1906, how many of the old Victorian certainties were crumbling. As he intoned his text, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," they settled back for a sermon that would be solid but undisturbing...
...religious purposes," he shocked the elders by proposing to turn over the money to the town for better street lights. The horrified elders voted him down. At Brooklyn's New York Avenue Methodist Church, his first important pastorate, the well-heeled parishioners wanted him to concentrate on pulpit oratory. McConnell made the point, and won it, that "ringing doorbells" in parish work was equally important...
...preaching has overflowed from the pulpit into the press; one Christmas the London Evening Standard set his version of the Gospel story in place of an editorial. Knox eyes Scripture with the news sense of a journalist: its characters are present in the world today. This vivid gift appears best in his small masterpiece, The Rich Young Man, the idea of which he had from a monk himself under a rule of silence. It relates how the man who went sadly away, "for he had great possessions," gambled his fortune and took to crime, ending as the Penitent Thief...