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...expected, in the first month of the term, to visit many parts of the University,” he said. “This pulpit was not one of them...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Campus Voice | 10/14/2001 | See Source »

...administration of Josiah Bartlet. So it was unsurprising, if a little disappointing, to see the show's creator/writer, Aaron Sorkin, taking the grave events he was inspired by as license to ratchet up the show's already problematic preachiness to levels you couldn't reach with a 50-foot pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'West Wing': Terrorism 101 | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...preaching violence per se," Khan says, looking mournful. "We feel this mosque is being targeted because of individuals who may have had shady business somewhere, but that has nothing to do with the mosque and the rest of the community." He says the imam never talked politics from the pulpit: "It doesn't make sense. No mosque wants that. It divides people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backlash: As American As... | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...Austin Hall podium occasionally seemed more like a pulpit as Jackson exhorted his audience to remember the oppressed and the marginalized around the world who could be harmed by U.S. retaliation...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jackson Urges Restraint | 9/25/2001 | See Source »

...world's a ship on its passage out," Melville wrote in Moby-Dick, "and the pulpit is its prow." That may have been true at one time--but times have changed, moral authority has dispersed, the 1960s and '70s toppled many a preacher from his rostrum, along with other symbols of authority. "That created a trauma in the churches," argues William Schweiker, professor of theological ethics at the University of Chicago. "The first reaction was to encourage a therapeutic emphasis on pastoral care." When it came to preaching, as opposed to social activism and counseling, the mainline churches lost their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Does The Preaching Matter? | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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