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Ciay & Cardboard. Sometimes the search for the dramatic effect skates disturbingly close to pulpit gimmickry. In Birmingham, Mich., for example, the Rev. Robert Marshall of the community's Unitarian church once passed out lumps of clay and cardboard to his congregation, told them to sculpt themselves. His point: to make them meditate on the theme "What...
...than Scripture" to contemporary man, says the Rev. Richard McFarland of Washington's Dumbarton Methodist Church. Accordingly, he is as likely to use a passage from Camus or Albee as a parable to bring home to his congregation an aspect of God's message. Well aware that pulpit time is dropout time for many churchgoers, more and more ministers are not only turning to secular sources as an inspiration for sermons but are trying more dramatic ways to vary the format of their preaching...
Time was when a young clergyman could expect his first pulpit to be a rural clapboard church whose faithful accorded him and his preaching unquestioning respect. Today, he is more apt to find himself confronted with spiritual drift in suburbia or explosive hatred in an urban ghetto-and every-where by growing skepticism about the value of religion. Last week the American Association of Theological Schools published a study that bluntly accused most Protestant seminaries of being ill-equipped to train clergymen for ministering to today's world...
When Walter Wolfgang Heller was appointed Chief Presidential Economist early in 1961, John Kennedy urged him "to use the White House as a pulpit for public education in economics." Heller did-and Kennedy himself was Heller's first student. This book, Heller's first since he left the Administration two years ago for a $50,000-a-year income as a private consultant and professor at the University of Minnesota, is an admirable account of the political machinations that underlay the recent age of discovery in economics-and welcome not least because he writes with crispness, clarity...
...then was what he calls "smoothly orthodox. I was still a lawyer. I had just changed clients. I was an apologist. My feeling was that you've got to make the church's institution look good." On nondoctrinal controversy, however, he was an unapologetic independent. From the pulpit or on his nationwide Dean Pike TV show, he tangled with Cardinal Spellman on movie