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Wearing flowing white ecclesiastical robes, the Rev. John Tietjen, leader of the Missouri Synod's breakaway liberal faction, delivered that bitter eulogy last week from a pulpit set up in an auditorium at the O'Hare Inn near Chicago. It was what his 1,600 listeners wanted to hear. They were members of Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (E.L.I.M.), a dissident group that has been warring openly with the conservative hierarchy of the 2.8 million-member denomination. Tietjen's lament for the church underlined the fact that the Missouri Synod's conservative leadership is now firmly...
...post made Ford a national figure with a handy pulpit to express his views. He joined the late Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen in "The Ev and Jerry Show," a weekly televised press conference that was intended as a G.O.P. rebuttal to the Great Society. True to character, Ford was content to play straight man to Dirksen's grandiloquent grandstanding...
...Nixon" lay partly in his remarkable opportunism. Few politicians have ever preached the verities of work ethic, law and order, anti-Communism and the rest with such fervor while so thoroughly readjusting their private dogmas to deal with events. Like an Elmer Gantry intransigent in the pulpit, Nixon knew all about sin and situational ethics in the political streets. The ideological flexibility that allowed him to embrace China and Russia, a guaranteed annual income, and wage and price controls, always troubled conservatives...
Salvatore Polizzi, 43. No mere pulpit priest, the associate pastor of St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in St. Louis spends most of his time on the streets of the Hill, the city's Italian district. Raised in St. Louis, Polizzi saw the beginnings of decay in the neighborhood and in 1964 formed Hill 2000-"because we plan on the Hill's being right here in the year 2000." Since then the neighborhood improvement organization has planted trees, renovated dozens of old homes to be sold cut-rate to young families, and run a popular educational summer youth program...
...recognized as a devout and respected believer was probably foreordained. Almost every President has had such trouble to some degree, just as every President has felt compelled to speak piously in public, regardless of what he may have truly felt inside. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, was denounced from the pulpit for his conduct of the Viet Nam War when he went to church in historic Williamsburg...