Word: pulpiteers
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...protest of oldsters who had been shocked by his marriage to a radio and nightclub singer, considered him a little too fancy and convivial for a preacher. His sermons dealt with everyday Harlem problems like high rents, jobs, the numbers racket. Afterward he stood in front of his pulpit, kissing the women of his congregation...
...play has sound points to make about people who "want something for nothing," but its pulpit manner is a bore and its Santa Claus ending a betrayal...
...Americans want U.S. participation in the war discussed from the pulpit? No say 55%, yes say 34%, with 11% undecided, the Gallup Poll reported last week. Church members (36%) are more inclined to favor war talk in the pulpit than non-members (25%) and Protestants (37%) are "slightly more in favor of open discussion" than Catholics...
Head Coach Richard C. Harlow of the Harvard football team will bring to the pulpit of the First Baptist Church Sunday a story of football, character and religion....Coach Harlow's appearance will assume the form of an interview, in which Rev. Mr. Fowler will ask the Harvard mentor questions, the answers to which are intended to show the relationship of football with character and religion. The pastor will then preach on "The Spirit of Notre Dame." --From the Boston Globe...
...intellectual leader ship - Catholicism would cut through Protestantism as through so much butter." Dr. Maynard is an old hand at stirring up churchmen. As a 19-year-old English man he came to the U.S. in 1909 to study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much too personal. Converted to Catholicism four years later, he now writes with the full fervor of the oath he took on abandoning Protestantism to "detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed...