Word: pulpiteering
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...typical country church, this one outside Dengfeng county is run by a lay minister who has received no special training on dealing with strange sects. It is poor. The pulpit is a red flounce curtain draped over a desk; broken windows let the swirling central China dust coat the whitewashed walls. The biggest single expenditure this year was the $25 the congregation gave its most desperate members to celebrate the lunar new year. Every Sunday 150 peasants crowd onto low wooden benches to receive the Word, including a gray-haired woman known as Granny...
...issues. He knows that the world is becoming a smaller place, and a more dangerous place. His opening reference to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was balanced by his call for the increased openness and communication that are stimulated by advances in digital communication technology. Rudenstine shunned the bully pulpit that the presidency of Harvard offered him. We hope that Summers will make every use of it to advance Harvard’s educational and institutional interests, to engage Harvard more deeply with the rest of the world and to continue to bring the best people in the world...
...expected, in the first month of the term, to visit many parts of the University,” he said. “This pulpit was not one of them...
...administration of Josiah Bartlet. So it was unsurprising, if a little disappointing, to see the show's creator/writer, Aaron Sorkin, taking the grave events he was inspired by as license to ratchet up the show's already problematic preachiness to levels you couldn't reach with a 50-foot pulpit...
...preaching violence per se," Khan says, looking mournful. "We feel this mosque is being targeted because of individuals who may have had shady business somewhere, but that has nothing to do with the mosque and the rest of the community." He says the imam never talked politics from the pulpit: "It doesn't make sense. No mosque wants that. It divides people...