Word: pulpiteering
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...many a Detroiter of the cloth found it hard to welcome him sincerely. He was Rev. John Franklyn Norris, loud Texas Baptist who reached fame eight years ago when he was indicted, tried and acquitted of murder. Last week it seemed likely that Baptist Norris would take a Detroit pulpit, settle there for good...
...could yield a little to science without harming his soul. But sometime after 1920 Presbyterian Fundamentalists suddenly awoke to what they called the Menace of Modernism in their midst. Their church, they vowed, should forth with be purged of those who did not believe as they did. In the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church was preaching Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick. In a famed sermon entitled Shall the Fundamentalists Win? Dr. Fosdick dared to point skeptically to analogs of miracles and virgin births in non-Christian religions. For that the Presbyterian Fundamentalists chased Dr. Fosdick out of their...
...agile, soft-spoken old Negro, who has mounted his pulpit in Washington's 19th Street Baptist Church every Sunday for 52 years, is Dr. Walter Henderson Brooks. Once Dr. Brooks was a slave. Emancipated at 14, he entered Presbyterian-owned Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., at 15. A gift of $500 from some Pittsburgh Presbyterians enabled him to go through college and theological school, start out on a career which has made him the best known of Washington's many Negro preachers. Last month came a proud day for Dr. Brooks when he wrote to Lincoln's white President William...
Last week in Oklahoma City Rev. Homer Lewis Sheffer told his congregation at First Unitarian Church that he was resigning, to accept a call from the First Unitarian Society of Spokane. Wash. "I assure you," said Pastor Sheffer crisply from his pulpit, "that there have been no pious conversations with the Almighty. Other opportunities have come to me but I have turned them down. This time I cannot...
...attendance in his big, rambling church. Once a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church from which he was ousted for heresy. Pastor Sheffer publicly flayed the churches for their machine-like governments, their excessive "talk about God." He encouraged dances in his quarters in the church, twice lent his pulpit to his good Presbyterian friend Norman Thomas. But it was not his theological or social liberalism that caused Pastor Sheffer to resign last week. Bluntly from his pulpit he explained...