Word: pulpiteers
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...candidate is short, boyish despite graying sideburns, and dresses with dash. His hands constantly go to his receding hairline. As he steps away from the pulpit of a synagogue in Queens (because it is "too formal"), in order to address his audience from the aisle, he looks like a misplaced Johnny Carson...
...with a weeks-old daughter in tow. She floundered around the Pentecostal circuit till a grocery clerk named McPherson proposed. After a fairly short spell of McPherson, she fell deathly ill and suffered a vision in which the Lord summoned her from the dishpan to the pulpit. So she dumped her daughter and small son on the farm in Ontario and ran away to preach. In 1918, preaching took her to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles quickly took her to its stucco heart...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sock-man, 80, famed radio preacher who propounded Christian verities to millions of Americans each Sunday from 1928 to 1962 over NBC's National Radio Pulpit; of cancer; in Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
...Yale Repertory's theater was once a church, and Brustein has exploited its dark interior to augment the play's supernatural dimension-even to the otiose point of having important speeches delivered from the pulpit. The electronic sound effects that thump and mutter portentously reflect not so much Newness as good, old gothic hokum. But these mechanical excesses hardly detract from a vibrant updating of the quintessential symbol of love 'em and leave 'em. The presentation deserves not to be left in New Haven...
Break with Tradition. Father Gigante is not alone. Frustrated by the continued fighting in Southeast Asia and the slow progress in dealing with social problems at home, at least twelve churchmen have turned from pulpit to political podiums this year and are seeking to join the two Protestant ministers who already serve in Congress.* Five of the challengers are Catholic, breaking with the American Catholic Church tradition against having priests run for public office...