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...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...
...month he will launch what aides are touting as a major new initiative called "Communities of Character"--an attempt to spur responsible behavior through policies aimed at teaching character education in schools, helping the children of prison inmates and encouraging volunteerism. Bush will also make simple bully-pulpit appeals to patriotic and civic pride. "It's why he ran for office," says White House Counsellor Karen Hughes. "It's the essence of compassionate conservatism...
...Speaking to 64,000 women in New Orleans recently, he flatly broached a mother's nightmare: "You got a problem with your child. It's been 10 years since you've seen the child you wanted to see. Just some monster in his clothes.") It's Oprah-in-a-pulpit. But for Winfrey's generic spirituality, Jakes substitutes God. Says Charisma's Grady: "He taps into the core of human weakness and need and then proclaims Christ as an answer to that, in a way that causes people to stand up and shout...
...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...
...conversion; it is another to escort you, week after week, all the way home. The vast majority of preachers do their work in sanctuaries, not stadiums, before hundreds of listeners every week, not tens of thousands once a year. And for them, who are judged not only in the pulpit but also at the bedside, in the classroom, at the meeting, in the soup kitchen, how much does the preaching really matter...