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...just upset because I feel like this event was used as a pulpit to speak to the masses, rather than to my class,” he said...
Seat-less seniors ringed the back and balcony, and they began using their programs as fans to battle the rising temperature even before Peter J. Gomes, the minister of Memorial Church, took the pulpit to make introductory remarks...
Wright was officially to have stepped down last Sunday, June 1. And from the pulpit at 7:30 a.m. that day, Wright's hand-picked successor, the Rev. Otis Moss III, preached what should have been his first sermon as senior pastor of Trinity, one of the Chicago's largest congregations and among the most influential religious institutions in America. Instead, on church bulletins on June 1, Moss was identified simply as "pastor" rather than "senior pastor," even as Wright assumed the title "pastor emeritus." Indeed, Trinity members familiar with the developments say that on May 27, Moss was summoned...
Seat-less seniors ringed the back and balcony, and they began using their programs as fans to battle the rising temperature even before Peter J. Gomes, the minister of Memorial Church, took the pulpit to make introductory remarks...
...even seemed to suggest that it's a bit disingenuous for a political candidate to feel compelled to choose a congregation based on a political, rather than purely spiritual, calculus. Should he choose to join a predominately black church, it's highly possible that what's delivered from the pulpit could, again, shock people unfamiliar with the nuances, cadences - and occasionally harsh rhetoric - of the black American church experience. "I do think there is a cultural and a stylistic gap that has come into play on this issue," Obama said Saturday. "I haven't figured out exactly how this...