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...some would say, that she speaks too seldom. Rather, she speaks too often and on too many subjects." This was the unlikely counsel of outspoken Manhattan Methodist Ralph W. Sockman, minister since 1936 to a congregation now numbering some 500,000 on NBC's Radio Pulpit. "Churchmen," his sermon continued, "act as though they feel they have to pontificate on any problem and, having spoken, tend to assume that there is little more to be said. This is boorish behavior as well as bad theology. It leaves little alternative for those who disagree but to stay away. Thoughtful members...
...Protestantism suffering from a surfeit of crapehangers ? The Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell, 68, of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes so. Mounting the pulpit last week, he sounded off against the "handwringing, breast-beating and doleful prophecies about the future of Protestantism" from the very churchmen on whom its future depends...
None of these things bothers Ted Dealey, who thinks of the News as a pulpit and of its readers as a congregation: "We feel a duty along the lines of leading them in thought along the proper channels. We are just the same as we always were. I'd say the left has just moved farther left. The leftist influence has gotten so much stronger that we have got to holler louder to make ourselves heard." On those terms, the News is a hollering success...
Amid the muffled clank of advancing legal artillery and the kindling of beacon fires from pulpit and platform, the U.S. was lining up for a major debate over federal assistance to religious schools. Ironically, the commander of the forces opposed to aid for private schools was the nation's first Roman Catholic President, and his principal opponents were the hierarchy of his own church...
Following Jones to the pulpit, Charles W. Eliot II '20, professor of City and Regional Planning, argued that the fight against the building should be directed to the larger issues of civic planning...