Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a tall, gold and scarlet jeweled mitre on his head, a white and gold stole over his shoulders and a silver and gold crozier in his hand, the stocky little 60-year-old prelate, survivor of the Nazis' Dachau concentration camp, mounted the pulpit and turned to face his congregation...
...firm believer in interfaith understanding, Editor Stewart, a member of the United Presbyterian Church, has taught at a Methodist Sunday school, and every year goes on a three-day Roman Catholic retreat. During summers, he preaches what he practices by substituting in the pulpit for vacationing Protestant pastors. But Stewart's own pastor considers him a disappointing churchgoer. Since he started covering the God beat, Frank Stewart has been to his own church just twice...
...noses at it. But all literature is a form of escape. The readers demand it, I am interested in readers. To hell with editors. You can dig your own literary grave if you listen to editors. The detective story is a far more inspiring sermon than one from the pulpit. It reassures the reader about life, makes him believe that justice always triumphs. The western story and the detective story go hand in hand. They are full of sincerity and guts, heroes who shoot straight and heroines as pure as the driven snow...
Bernard Iddings Bell is a personable man, but he has never tried to be a popular man. For 40 years, in books and articles, from pulpit and lecture platform, he has been irritating churchmen, ruffling educators, cracking complacencies and smugness. A canon of the Episcopal Church, and onetime warden of New York's Episcopal St. Stephen's College (now Bard College), he calls himself a radical independent. As such, he has become one of the most caustic critics of the manners & morals of his day. There is scarcely a sector of U.S. civilization for which Bell...
...Ministers who use the pulpit for political speeches...