Word: pulpiteering
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...register my agreement with Christian Century's Editor Hutchinson on most of his points in regard to 50 years of Protestantism . . . However, as to his point on Protestant preaching . . . that is, that the pulpit today speaks from Romans 7:19 ("For the Good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do") I have found differently...
...fires burning. Shocked at the goings-on under Boston Common's shadowy trees during the long summer evenings, he made it a practice to preach from the Parkman bandstand after his regular vesper services. When city authorities refused to renew his permit, he had an outdoor pulpit built on to the church, from which he and his assistants regularly address the Common's assortment of bums, tarts, sailors, tourists and Harvard boys...
...Know." As Ockenga's fame has spread, offers have poured in to him from congregations across the country. In 1941 the First Presbyterian Church of Seattle offered its pulpit at a tempting boost in pay (a starting salary of $8,500 a year, with annual increases of $700 guaranteed up to $12,000). After nearly two months of soul-searching, Ockenga turned the offer down, to his congregation's surprise and joy. "Now what you say to us will mean more," said a member of his flock, and the Park Street Church has grown by 50% since that...
...word that issues from that pulpit has changed drastically, too. Except in the South, evangelical fervor is on the discard in most of the "leading" Protestant denominations. Methodist Hutchinson is not happy about what has replaced it: "A kind of preaching which, at its best, is in direct descent from the ethical insights of the Old Testament prophets, but which too often is diluted from that into something perilously akin to that careful moralism against which the Evangelical Revival revolted...
...ridden his highest horse of all against the booming business of San Berdoo's red-light district. Once, George climbed into his pulpit to cite the names and records of the big shots in a gambling, bookmaking and prostitution enterprise that, according to a 1948-49 grand-jury report, grossed $2,000,000 a year in the county. Time after time he has jolted proper Presbyterians with his spade-calling sermons about pimps, whores and gamblers. Then, three weeks ago, he got the chance he had been waiting...