Word: pulpiteers
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...themes that have been the hallmark of his career: of looking at people as individuals rather than as masses, of insisting that political power must come from the people up, not the government down. They battled for the right to let Reagan be Reagan behind a great Moscow pulpit. It was mind over protocol...
...Hearing about miraculous happenings in local spiritualist churches, he decided to see for himself. Disaster. Watching the preacher divine the contents of sealed envelopes handed him by his parishioners, Randi, then 15, was outraged. "He was using the old 'one-ahead' method," Randi explains, still indignant. Striding to the pulpit, he fished one of the opened envelopes out of a wastebasket and accused the preacher of cheating. An uproar followed, and Randi was arrested for disturbing a religious meeting. At the police station, he vowed that he would someday fight back against those who defiled...
...refused to comply with the one-year ban. Such a long absence, he feared, would cripple fund raising for his Bible College and $140 million- a-year Worldwide Ministries. Swaggart said last week that he still plans to honor the original three-month suspension and not return to the pulpit until May 22. "Unless," Swaggart added, "the rapture occurs first...
...After a day and a half of deliberating, singing and praying at an emergency session in Springfield, Mo., 206 general presbyters of the Assemblies toughened a three-month suspension originally imposed by the local district council in Louisiana. They ruled that Swaggart must stay out of the pulpit and off TV for a year; even past tapes cannot be aired. Swaggart nonetheless announced that he would return to television on May 22, despite the risk of defrocking...
Getting out from behind the restrictive pulpit was even better than losing a watch, to Jesse's and the crowd's thinking, so he used the fight as an excuse to glide to the right side of the stage, his wingtips over the edge and his volume equal to the task of overriding the debate on the opposite...