Word: pulpiteers
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...last week, on the eve of his 72nd birthday, one of the top clergymen in the U.S., the Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, announced to his congregation his resignation from the pulpit of famed Christ Church, at Manhattan's 60th Street and Park Avenue, which is often called "a cathedral of Methodism...
...Shot in the Head. Preaching has always been Ralph Sockman's special ministry; he is generally acknowledged as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S. He is one of the alltime veterans of the air waves; for 33 years his voice has been heard on the National Radio Pulpit at 10 a.m. Sundays. Shunning the emotionalism of Evangelist Billy Graham, his lucid sermons - many of them published in his 20-odd books - are designed to teach as well as inspire. "You've got to put something in people's heads," he told a friend last week, "rather...
...Sockman is much concerned with the decline of preaching in the churches today, and plans to spend much of his retirement visiting seminaries to stimulate interest in the pulpit among fledgling ministers preoccupied with pastoral counseling and group activities. Says he: "The churches today are better organized than they are pulpitized. The greatest need of the contemporary church is the strengthening of the local pulpits. I just happen to think that there's more need for strong preaching than for administration...
From a guest pulpit in the New York Herald Tribune, Author William Saroyan, a longtime tax-impelled expatriate, unburdened himself of a sermon on the sins of the U.S. theater. Among his targets: "fishy" audiences ("The real people almost never get to the theater"), captious critics ("If they were reviewing the world, the show would close after two performances"), and that revered Broadway training ground, the Actors' Studio ("The supreme achievement at this new church is to divorce from any of its members even the faintest condition of peopleness"). The gist of Saroyan's complaint: "Everybody is kind...
...crowd retreated temporarily, but kept up a fusillade of bottles, rocks and paving stones. Inside, Martin Luther King took the pulpit to say: "The ultimate responsibility for the hideous action in Alabama last week must be placed at the doorstep of the Governor of the state. We hear the familiar cry that morals cannot be legislated. This may be true, but behavior can be regulated. The law may not be able to make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching...