Word: pulpiteering
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This week Mr. Cowan moved to a more congenial pulpit. He had accepted a call to the Community Church of TVA's model town of Norris, Tenn. In this nondenominational, New Dealish church he could continue the activities which have made his Fellowship an example, mostly horrible, to Southern churchgoers...
...LAYMAN invariably suffers a severe shock when he reads a book on religion and finds that it is neither an attempt at conversion nor an attack on his conscience. The concept that a religious book is hurled from a pulpit dies hard in the popular mind, but Dean Sperry has done much to explode this theory in his lectures in the Lowell Institute published in book form under the name of Strangers and Pilgrims...
...refusing to cut his faith to Nazi patterns. In the U. S., The Federal Council of Churches asked its constituents to devote attention to Pastor Niemöller's anniversary. In the Union Church of Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), Presbyterian Rev. John Paul Jones acceded. As he mounted his pulpit, he was seized and dragged away by two parishioners in brown shirts. Then a painted prison set labeled "Sachsenhausen" was stood before the pulpit. Mr. Jones appeared behind it, preached a sermon on Niemoller through its barred window...
...first U. S. proletarian novels as well as one of the best. Last week she published her third novel, a slight, simple story of a Southern wedding, which is as far from the subject of her first book as a picket line is from a pulpit. The Wedding is an interesting novel in its own right. But it is more interesting as an indication of how the proletarian novelists are developing, of what they find when they leave the union halls and look at things on the other side of the tracks...
Hannibal Hooker sets out from his Hoosier Quaker home to become a minister and to mend the world singlehanded. Before long he finds himself extolling Mammon in the pulpit of a brand-new stone temple and wishing he loved a brand-new, stone-cold wife for something besides her money. His mind cracks, and he disappears...