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...CENTRAL complaint Kelman lodges against the radicals-that they are elitists who assume a know-it-all pose-is a peculiar one, considering his own stance in the book. Toting a portable pulpit around with him, Kelman hops up from time to time to point out the true meaning of various incidents...
...agree that the black church holds a unique place in American society. Even the most radical churchmen will not agree with some of the disaffected black young, most of whom feel that the Christian churches have no more usefulness to the black man in America. Three views from the pulpit...
...strapping, bearded, 6-ft. Marshall is a magisterial figure in the pulpit. On his clerical robes, he wears the cross-in-the-fist button of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, and the black, red and green "liberation"* colors-which are evident elsewhere in the church: on a prayerbook on the altar, in a flag on the wall...
Accordingly, Williams feels that black demands for reparations are sound "in principle." Tactically, even James Forman's flamboyant pulpit takeovers may have been necessary, Williams concedes. "My uncle was a farmer and he had mules to work with. One day I saw him take a sapling and knock a mule to the ground. When I protested, he said, 'Son, I had to get his attention.' " Even violent resistance, says Williams, may be necessary some day. "I do not counsel violence," he insists. "It is a dangerous weapon. But it is conceivable that there are circumstances where...
...their trusted servants with something resembling equanimity. Last month, when Msgr. James M. Murray left the priesthood after 28 years in order to marry, he explained to relatives that he "had entered the church by the front door and was leaving by the front door." Thereupon he mounted the pulpit of St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco at noon Mass one Sunday and told his congregation all about his decision. Archbishop Joseph McGucken even made a farewell statement of appreciation for his services to the church...