Word: pulpiteering
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...misfortune to load the New York Times Web site on Saturday morning around 11:30, she would have seen a photo of George W. Bush and Jesus Christ, a carefully cropped picture of the presidential candidate speaking in a chapel which had a mural of Christ behind the pulpit. My question is: did the photographer/editor mean the cropping to be a mischievous reference to Bush's steady invocations of Christ on the campaign trail, did he mean it to be a positive commentary on the Republican front-runner, or was it just a coincidence? If it was the latter...
...nothing to do with legislature," he says. "It was using the offices of bully pulpit to advance the issues that matter...
...what happened between the governor's election and the defeat of the lottery referendum? "The lottery idea was very popular initially," says TIME Montgomery bureau correspondent Ralph Holmes. "But in the past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that it would link education to gambling - and church people turned out in droves on Tuesday." Not that many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they...
...scene is the papal kitchen, 1942. Pope Pius XII is holding two closely written sheets. On them is his denunciation of the Nazi persecution of European Jews, to be published by evening. But word has just arrived that after Holland's bishops issued a similar statement from the pulpit, the Germans deported 40,000 Catholics of Jewish origin. If the Dutch protest cost 40,000 lives, Pius says, "my own could cost the lives of perhaps 200,000 Jews. I cannot take such a great responsibility. It is better to remain silent before the public and do in private...
...reaching out to African-American church leaders in the hope that they will use the power of the pulpit to get out the word about AIDS. Let's hope the tactic works. At this critical moment in the AIDS epidemic, what happens next will depend largely on how well we educate--and how well people listen...