Word: pulpiteering
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...QUIET power of that faith comes out in his sermons. He has the same restraint in the pulpit, and the simplicity of his appeal to a congregation perhaps owes something to the Puritan past. But he is very far from the old Puritans in the gentleness of his manner. He and his listeners are "we," quietly discussing "our sins." Here the effort to be ordinary is no longer a strain. It is spontaneous, and sincere. This genuine quality, even more than his intelligence, has made him one of the best preachers in English...
With these words Evangelist Billy Graham moved in on Washington, D.C. for the first time in his career, to hold a five-week "crusade" of revival meetings. As a concession to Washington's conservative tastes, Preacher Billy toned down his tailoring, took the pulpit at the National Guard Armory last week wearing a sober blue double-breasted suit. But he gave Washington the same high-tension preaching show that has rocked auditoriums in the West and South...
...Pastor Niemöller had already said enough to give the trip sharp political significance. For nearly three years, he has been speaking contemptuously of West Germany's Bonn government ("It was conceived in the Vatican and born in Washington") and using platform and pulpit to oppose West German rearmament and integration with the West. It was no surprise that the Kremlin had seen fit to invite him to Russia-the first top figure in West Germany so honored since...
Last week they overflowed their spanking new $1,250,000 church at its first Sunday service. In his own pulpit for the first time since he came to New York Avenue in March 1950 was 40-year-old Dr. George
...guest preaching tour of the U.S., he gave a series of sermons at the old New York Avenue Church. When the congregation sent a delegation to him in Aberdeen to call him to Washington, Docherty reports, they convinced him with the argument "that this strategic pulpit was where a Scotsman might make an abiding witness, not only for the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but toward a greater understanding between our two great nations...