Word: pulpiteering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jakes' emotive preaching flows out of the Pentecostal school, a minority tradition even in the world of the African-American church. His frankness--on stage or in the pulpit--about sex and sexual abuse (topics most pastors prefer to limit to private counseling) is also a breakthrough. "It wasn't just 'Read the Bible verse and talk about it,'" says J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma magazine. "It was a married black man speaking from a shepherd's heart to wounded women, and they lined up by the thousands." At least 2 million bought Jakes' book Woman, Thou Art Loosed...
...John Lennon was not God. But he earned the love and admiration of his generation by creating a huge body of work that inspired and led. The appreciation for him deepened because he then instinctively decided to use his celebrity as a bully pulpit for causes greater than his own enrichment or self-aggrandizement. For several key years in the late '60s and early '70s, Lennon and Yoko Ono turned their lives into a virtual "Truman Show" to promote the issues they believed...
That set the stage for this election and for the budget politics of the next 10 years. It was the most effective use of the "bully pulpit" by a President that I can think of, and it was at his most difficult personal moment...
Beginning with a description of modern speechwriting's origins (George Washington's Farewell Address was in fact written by Alexander Hamilton), Waldman stressed the importance of the president's "bully pulpit." From Harry Truman's 88 speeches a year, presidential loquaciousness has increased to Bill Clinton...
...university presidents need to be Clintonesque?" asks David Greenberg, a Hofstadter Fellow at Columbia who has written widely on academia. "In certain respects, yes. They need to please a variety of different constituencies, to use the bully pulpit fearlessly and to have a gift for articulating issues in a way that builds a consensus of the academic community behind them...