Word: pulpiteering
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...Notre Dame Cathedral on Easter morning, just as Archbishop Maurice Feltin was chanting the Credo, Michel Mourre, a 22-year-old former student for holy orders, dressed in a rented Dominican monk's robe, climbed into the pulpit, grabbed the microphone and roared: "God is dead! I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with a funeral spirit." Some of the congregation of 10,000 rushed forward to drag Mourre from the pulpit. Three of his friends, standing at its foot, threw firecrackers in the faces of the infuriated faithful. Gendarmes arrested Mourre and his three friends...
Every Sunday morning at 10 E.S.T., from October through May, 60-year-old Dr. Sockman preaches on NBC's National Radio Pulpit to one of the biggest religious radio audiences in the U.S. Then, at his Byzantine-style church on Manhattan's Park Avenue, he holds a regular Sunday morning service (with enough ceremony and liturgy to jolt many a low-church Methodist). So many people come to hear him that at 5 in the afternoon he repeats his morning service...
...most popular lecturers in the Southwest (he owns his own plane to keep five to eight lecture dates a week), he earns about $40,000 a year. His deacons thought running for the Senate was a fine idea, promised that he could keep his pulpit if he ran. That was about enough to settle the matter-but Pastor Alexander was never one to overlook a dramatic opportunity...
This week, Cripps spoke in St. Paul's Cathedral, the first layman so invited at a regular service. Under the vast, golden dome, Cripps, in a dark business suit,* seemed a tiny black speck as he walked stiffly up the marble staircase to the red-canopied pulpit. Said Insomniac Cripps: "When in the stillness of the night we face the tremendous dangers of the modern world, let us listen for the still small voice of God which can instill courage, calm and strength into our hearts . . . Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow I die . . . may smack of boldness...
...from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the U.S. At his desk and in the pulpit, he proved to be a good choice for the job: during his 13-year tenure the Trinity Corp. reduced its debt substantially...