Word: pulpits
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...reality until we tell the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.—in the words of Donald Trump—“You’re fired!” President Bush enjoys the benefits of incumbency—fundraising ability and a readily-available bully pulpit. He has also utilized the politics of fear, making Americans believe (wrongly) that only he can safeguard them against the evils of terror. While this is despicable and the lowest form of politics, generally reserved for totalitarian regimes, it is also extremely effective. We Democrats need to fight back...
...Mediterranean island. Since then, Greek Cypriots have taken up their President's call with fervor. Oxi fever is sweeping southern Cyprus: the slogan screams out from highway billboards, T shirts and posters; one hearse in Paphos drove to the graveyard with an oxi sticker on the windshield. From the pulpit, Cypriot Orthodox priests have pilloried the mild-mannered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a "Judas" and branded his plan dangerous, even "satanic." Mobile phones are lighting up with anti-Annan sms messages. "What do you say to the Annan plan?" asked the teacher last week in one Nicosia nursery...
...might still elude us. "There are many mysteries of atonement that we won't understand this side of eternity," he says. Discussion is also stunted by American Christianity's ongoing romance with a friendly, helpful, personal Jesus, which has made detailed discussion of his violent death an increasingly difficult pulpit pitch. Says theologian and broadcaster R.C. Sproul: "You don't hear people preaching about the atonement anymore. I don't think there's any great difference there between Protestant evangelicalism and the mainline churches either...
...person, Warren, an affable, bespectacled bear of a man, is as unadorned and low-key as the plainspoken prose of his books. He receives visitors to his office in the same casual attire he wears at the pulpit--khaki pants, floral cotton shirt and rubber-soled shoes. That suits his members just fine. "From the beginning, I was impressed by his humility," says Patricia Miller, who has attended Saddleback since 1998. "When I joined, he asked all the new members to form a circle and lay our hands on one another's shoulders. Then he stood in the middle...
...breast cancer late last year and then by his own surgery in January to remove a benign abdominal cyst. Warren had not preached since his wife began treatment last November, turning his duties over to his staff of ministers. When her chemo-therapy was completed, he returned to the pulpit late last month and moved forward on his global mission with renewed purpose. He wants each of Saddleback's 2,000 small groups to adopt a village in a developing country, make mission trips there and send educational and medical supplies, along with spiritual and financial support, to its residents...