Word: pulpiteering
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...least among criticisms of contemporary commercialism are protests against America's fiagrant and immoderate use of bill boards and posters. Despised by the aesthetic, condemned by the nature loving, frowned upon by the "better" minds of press and pulpit, they continue to defy anything and everything but the dust of their neighboring roads...
...figures, mediaeval symbols of secular and ecclesiastical authority, are remarkable examples of human characterization. Abraham is represented as wielding the sword against the hostile powers of the world, while Melchisedec is shown carrying a cup of libation for spiritual evils. Placed against the same wall before which the Wechselburg Pulpit and Crucifix are mounted, the two figures fit well into the setting and worthily complete the exhibit of thirteenth century Teutonic sculpture...
Sirs: Enclosed find a Calendar with my subject for next Sunday, "Time's Titillations." This does not refer to TIME but to "Father Time." However TIME is such a fine revelation of Life's reactions that I consider it indispensable each week before going into the pulpit. I do not speak hastily but as an "original subscriber." TIME not only titillates. It reveals for inspiration the Soul struggle of humanity...
...even better than in a place of scholarship. Only the highest ideals and the deepest convictions will uproot the seeds of war. These ideas and convictions are born of religion. Let us have our chapel and also the professor's Chair to aid and abet the altar and the pulpit. George L. Paine...
...Reformed, propelled in the 18th Century by the German Jew, Moses Mendelssohn, to bring his coreligionists out of their spiritual seclusion into the current cultural life, stresses the national culture of the country of which the adherents are citizens. Its ritual is quite up to date. From the Temple pulpits on Sunday morning (this shift of the Sabbath solemnities is a jibing with convenience) the congregations hear lectures hung on current news topics, as do those of many Christian churches. Yet one must note that the pulpit sideshows so currently prevalent are largely eschewed in Jewish houses of worship...