Word: pulpiteering
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...Fosdick held his first service at the skyscraper-Gothic Riverside Church on Oct. 5, 1930. It had cost some $5,000,000 (largely donated by the Rockefellers), and is one of Manhattan's sightseeing land marks. Fosdick's Sunday morning sermons, delivered from a marble pulpit, attracted capacity (2,500) congregations. Millions more heard his Sunday afternoon sermons, broadcast over a national hookup from his 18th-floor tower study. He received 125,000 letters a year from his radio talks alone. Meanwhile, he continued to teach at Union Theological Seminary, continued to turn out popular books (A Guide...
Most of the missionaries' time had been spent in trying to improve the lives of their fellow fugitives. With medical supplies almost nonexistent, they dressed the wounds of guerrillas. In a deep gorge, they cut seats, altar, lectern and pulpit out of rock and fashioned a chapel. The congregation dwindled as U.S. submarines, supplying the guerrillas, began to evacuate some of the Americans. The missionaries chose to stay...
Pastor Niem&2461ler became an anti-Nazi the hard way. He was a staunch early-Party member. But when he saw how the wind was blowing, he stood up in his Dahlem pulpit and denounced Hitler's mumbo-jumbo racial theories. He also refused to put the will of Der F&252hrer above the will...
...Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller. who preached from his Dahlem pulpit, too often for his own safety, against the false gods of totalitarianism. He was thin but tanned and in good spirits...
...usher's job is to put the buyers [congregation] in a receptive mood for the supersalesman in the pulpit to work on. . . . We don't like the hale & hearty traveling salesman's greeting." But at the other evil extreme is the cold-shoulder church. "There must be no distracting influences [from the service]. A good usher asks himself: 'Is the sidewalk clean? Are the steps clear of snow and ice? Are the lights too bright? . . . How is the heat?' Heat makes or mars a service. If we see somebody nodding, we check the heat before...