And what I do know is that when a pastor steps out of the pulpit or in the pulpit, they represent the hearts and minds of the entire congregation.
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Don't believe women should wear that dress in the pulpit.
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Pastors are encouraged to normalize the condition from the pulpit.
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Then he cut them up right there at the pulpit.
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A case for divine imperfection is made from the pulpit.
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In fact, she grew up seeing women in the pulpit.
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There was no cross behind the pulpit in this church.
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She encourages pastors to preach from the pulpit on these issues.
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Unfortunately, many churches have silenced their speech, even from the pulpit.
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They become the prophets, especially when the pulpit refuses to preach.
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The Reverend cannot resist a prideful star turn at the pulpit.
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"There are prophecies around us," Mr. Cahn intoned from the pulpit.
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Lexington's parish priest more or less openly endorsed him from the pulpit.
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I was sitting behind Dr. King as he preached from the pulpit.
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From the pulpit, he preaches the "sacred duty" to attending the caucuses.
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Bryan was reportedly walking up to the pulpit when the shooting began.
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The latest push against the Confederate flag is coming from the pulpit.
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"We place preaching formally with the person behind the pulpit," he says.
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It would allow campaigning from the pulpit and make it tax-free.
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I hungered for personal knowledge of her father's artistry on the pulpit.
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Bernice King addressed the church from the pulpit, describing her father's work.
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Soon after she stepped up to the pulpit, she began to sob.
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Specifically, ministers are restricted from endorsing or opposing candidates from the pulpit.
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On other occasions he takes cover behind the abstractions of the pulpit.
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"Our brother Prince fell asleep in death," said the elder at the pulpit.
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Arthur Price proclaimed from the pulpit at 16th Street Baptist Church Sunday morning.
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The people, the pulpit, the purse strings, the guns, all of it. Everything.
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"Before, we were in rival gangs, firing guns," he exclaims from the pulpit.
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Many churches remain committed to preaching conservative politics from the pulpit on Sundays.
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She and Cecil sat in chairs beside the pulpit, which was not elevated.
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The rapper has drawn swift criticism for joining the speakers at the pulpit.
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"What we want to see is the power of the pulpit," she said.
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He never cast criticism on gays from the pulpit and preached only love.
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But the Bible in the pulpit at a Mississippi college chapel was left undisturbed.
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Brenda Nelson, a minister on staff, knelt in the pulpit and prayed for grace.
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Down at the pulpit, the pastor made his altar call, and she moved forward.
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He delivered it from the pulpit of the church in Memphis where the Rev.
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During the early 1960s, gospel artists were often forced to stay in the pulpit.
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On the pulpit, poster-sized photos of her through the years rested on easels.
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No better pulpit for nudging than the pulpit owned by House and Senate members.
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" Speaking from the pulpit of a black church there, she demands: "We need action now.
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Protestant pastors, at least, are well aware of the pulpit-pew divide in their churches.
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Doing so could advance the vision of a just society eloquently described from the pulpit.
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The DJ spends a while looking down from the pulpit, which is pretty high up.
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He's at the pulpit, and everyone's listening now, but where were they during Section.80?
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As Thursday evening's church service made clear, however, Curry's true home is in the pulpit.
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One pastor talks like a poet in the pulpit, conjuring one shimmering image after another.
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He was shot in the back as he walked to the pulpit, the claim says.
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I feel like a real preacher on the pulpit when I start thinking about farmers.
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Millennials aren't engendered to respect old men lecturing piety from the pulpit of social morality.
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The pulpit was the same one Mr. Graham used in his crusades in the 1990s.
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On Sundays, in the pew, she would imagine herself in the pulpit in preacher's robes.
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Al Sharpton was the first to get political from the pulpit early in the proceedings.
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Jesse Jackson, used the pulpit to get out the vote for this year's midterm elections.
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On Sunday, he was in the pulpit and saw the security force reacting to something.
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He energized young people from the pulpit at Bethel Apostolic Church, Ms. Levy, 64, said.
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This past Sunday, HL stood behind the pulpit and preached their first sermon at Jubilee.
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TUT realized, he lived a life worth sharing, but from the studio and not the pulpit.
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Shillady says Clinton, a lifelong Methodist, has a "wealth of experience" to bring to the pulpit.
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From the pulpit of Covenant Christian Church, in Cary, the Reverend Chris Furr preached about compassion.
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Smith said her dad received his divine inspiration more from the race track than the pulpit.
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But there was one story his father told from the pulpit that rose above all others.
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These are the pulpit gems that go beyond eloquence; they leave a mark on the soul.
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You often leave the pulpit with the sense that, 'Man, I just didn't do anything today.
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She turned to the center of the pulpit and, one by one, lit eleven candles more.
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The leader, who demanded absolute obedience, bullied Mr. McNeely from the pulpit for the slightest infractions.
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He drew controversy in the pulpit in the 1950s for inviting African Americans into his Seattle sanctuary.
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Right-wing internet phenomena, bolstered by Trump's own tweets, have found their way straight to the pulpit.
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THERE is a Welsh style of political speech that owes more to the pulpit than the podium.
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You go to church, someone from the pulpit tells you what to believe, and you internalize that.
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The SBC joins other Christian institutions that are reconsidering the ties between the flag and the pulpit.
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He earned a reputation as a compelling orator in his more than two decades in the pulpit.
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China has tried to install monitoring cameras in churches, including on the pulpit aimed at the congregation.
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"I got something important really wrong," Bloomberg said from the pulpit of a black megachurch in Brooklyn.
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The lawsuit said their son, John Bryan Holcombe, was murdered while walking to the pulpit at the church.
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Like many Christians, I became a foster parent and later adopted based on an appeal from the pulpit.
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Countless times I heard him say from the pulpit that white people need to own up to racism.
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So, Kanye will take the pulpit and talk to Joel in the morning, and perform in the evening.
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In the pulpit, leaders announce upcoming social events planned to help teetotaling Mormons get to know each other.
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Angela Davis, Fran Lebowitz, Jesmyn Ward -- along with Oprah -- stepped up to the pulpit to honor their friend.
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Osteen is a televangelist who preaches kindness and generosity from the pulpit, but seemingly practices something else entirely.
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He walked up and sat in a chair in the center behind the pulpit and next to Rev.
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During the campaign, the Association of Catholic Priests urged its members not to preach politics from the pulpit.
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IRS guidelines require that pastors refrain from campaigning for candidates through their office—that is, from the pulpit.
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The prophetic is any discussion, particularly from the pulpit, that invokes politics or larger systems of social injustice.
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Watching Aretha Franklin sing from the pulpit and at the piano somehow intensifies everything heard on the record.
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A table by the pulpit offers tea and coffee and there is a kettle where the choir once stood.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billy Graham became the best-known preacher in the United States during 70 years in the pulpit.
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The sinister power of television is the subject of his sermon, and television the pulpit from which he preaches.
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He is co-author of "Christian Minister's Manual: For the Pulpit and the Public Square for All Denomination" (2017).
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Connor leaves the pulpit, and the camera cuts to Maria, looking absolutely baffled as to what she just heard.
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Rick Snyder of Michigan, a Republican, took the pulpit, still angry over his role in the Flint water crisis.
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To the Editor: President Trump has signed an executive order allowing clergy to endorse political candidates from the pulpit.
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Where Tony had a grounded, authoritative stillness in the pulpit, Bart was a more hyperactive speaker, caffeinated by Christ.
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Bishop Blake tends to avoid politics in church but his stances are clear when he's not in the pulpit.
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In his video, Warnock described his path from Savannah's Kayton Homes housing project to the pulpit where the Rev.
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Mr Tayeb insists that al-Azhar is "the pulpit of moderate, centrist and tolerant Islam", but it is not monolithic.
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The televangelists, celebrities and gospel music stars who once clamored for a spot on the pulpit next to Long vanished.
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Pastor Joel Osteen addressed the backlash he faced during Hurricane Harvey from the one place he knows best: the pulpit.
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"We still have a lot to do," their lay leader Isidore Ndaywel, a professor, urged from the pulpit following communion.
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A pastor at Ms. Pruitt's church campus pledged from the pulpit to tear down racism, one conversation at a time.
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"But the whole church is theirs," Fr. Barrios said, before the three children scrambled across the pews onto the pulpit.
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What if Lightfoot had been standing in the pulpit of one of those black churches when she kissed her wife?
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At the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, Mr. Jones praised him from the pulpit as one of Alabama's civil rights heroes.
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Yet last year's Pew study found that about two-thirds of regular churchgoers had heard political statements from the pulpit.
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And he embodied his message by driving around town in his Bentley and dressing in tight muscle shirts in the pulpit.
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Warnock, I'm not going to get the church in trouble, because I know it's something about [getting political] from the pulpit.
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They sat three rows back on the right center aisle, he said, directly in his line of sight from the pulpit.
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"Anything that says what you say from the pulpit can and should be limited is extremely hard to do," they said.
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We'd have no tolerance for someone who preached civil rights from the pulpit but was condescending to black people in private.
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Several evangelical groups, including the Alliance Defending Freedom, which organizes the "Pulpit Freedom" protests, said Trump's religious freedom promises remain unfulfilled.
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The Bishop's presence is significant for a bunch of reasons ... notably, an American took to the pulpit at a Royal Wedding.
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Kanye will walk up to the pulpit and have a conversation with Joel that will last between 20 and 30 minutes.
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"To me, the pulpit is a place that delivers life, and that fosters and protects life," Schenck said of his beliefs.
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Cone has inspired not only blacks but also women and other racial minorities to enter seminaries and the pulpit, he says.
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A Pew study from last year found that about two-thirds of regular churchgoers had heard political statements from the pulpit.
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Soon after marrying Ms. Bell in 1943, Mr. Graham accepted the pulpit of the First Baptist Church in Western Springs, Ill.
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He was followed at the pulpit by Mr. Fairfax — the first time they appeared in public together since the scandals erupted.
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He stood at the pulpit of the medieval mosque in Mosul in 2014 to declare himself caliph, sovereign over all Muslims.
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And we talk with two pastors, Gus Booth and Jamie Washam, about the case for and against politics from the pulpit.
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As the service heated up, with his band backing him, Mr. Dixon picked up his horn and played from the pulpit.
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This weekend, they'll be sharing the pulpit at a prayer rally with several Evangelical celebrities who preach against the LGBTQ+ community.
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Over six feet tall, with a shaved head and handsome, Gillum took the pulpit and told the congregation about his life.
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In May, Mr. Trump issued an executive order that sought to allow clergy members to endorse political candidates from the pulpit.
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The pulpit, the walls, as well as much of the carpet in the front of the hall was covered in blood.
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But when he got to the Methodist church, Allen learned that even the pulpit was segregated under the eyes of God.
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Back in Sulawesi, some conservationists want Minahasan pastors to thunder from the pulpit against bushmeat—even though their bellies might argue otherwise.
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Trump's brash and captivating style at the pulpit has always been key to his appeal and how he connects with his base.
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"The pulpit isn't simply to discuss chapter and verse but to address issues that plague our parishioners when Monday morning rolls around."
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But trying to outargue Ms. Abrams's parents, steeped in the language of the pulpit and the civil rights struggle — that was unwise.
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Less than a mile from the pulpit, a historic Woolworth's lunch counter is now part of a civil rights museum in Greensboro.
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Yet despite their influence and wealth, these women are, in the main, denied the most important symbol of spiritual power — the pulpit.
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Under Sisi, strict new rules limit who is allowed to preach Friday sermons, effectively removing Salafis and other radicals from the pulpit.
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C.L. Franklin became one of the most admired preachers in the 20th century because he blended so many elements in the pulpit.
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"We will wear white until the pink is gone," the church's pastor Lawrence Khong was quoted as saying on the pulpit last year.
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Initial media reports suggested Schooler was killed while standing at the pulpit during a service inside St. Peter's Missionary Baptist Church in Dayton.
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When Princess Diana's brother stood at the pulpit of Westminster Abbey for her funeral on September 6, 1997, he faced a daunting responsibility.
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"I'm going to pray to God...to illuminate the Archbishop of Arequipa so he doesn't use the pulpit for political commentary," Barnechea said.
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The beginning of his biggest album, "Purple Rain," finds Prince in the pulpit, preaching the coolest sermon ever heard on Top 40 radio.
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He continued to preach at Greenleaf, mastering a technique of swinging the walker behind him in the pulpit and bracing himself against it.
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" He raised his voice, as if speaking from the pulpit: "The Church has also done bad, bad things in the name of God!
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When the music finally peters out Thomas takes the pulpit to celebrate the various local chapters who have made their way to Mississippi.
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Baffled, I asked another minister why women were not allowed to preach from the pulpit or sit in the seats for the clergy.
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When I became obstreperous in the congregation as a child, my godfather would pick me up and preach with me on the pulpit.
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At a private meeting on Monday, President Trump urged evangelical Christian leaders to break federal law and openly support him from the pulpit.
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He would begin his comments slowly, developing his theme and raising the emotional heat until it became like a sermon from the pulpit.
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But the notion of an untrained pastor drawing down on a gunman from the pulpit as people flee a crowded sanctuary is unnerving.
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On Saturday, Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke for 17 minutes at Mount Zion, towering over the pulpit and over Mr. Caughman's garlanded coffin.
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And when politicians co-opt the pulpit, they pervert Scripture's prophetic message, delimiting faith's concerns to the narrowness of their partisan political agenda.
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Before completing his argument, the people gathered for prayers at the mosque objected and insisted that the imam should get off the pulpit.
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Churches often end up on the wrong side of issues — such as the blatant racism I heard from the pulpit as a child.
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"I always associated poetry with the voice of a priest in the pulpit," he once said, adding that poets sang while people talked.
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"It seemed odd to me that he was doing politics from the pulpit," she said during an interview at a local restaurant last month.
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Some 52% of the punters in the pews say welfare spending is too high, compared with just 17% of the preachers in the pulpit.
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It was on June 29, 2014 that ISIS' Abu Bakr al Baghdadi declared the Caliphate from the pulpit of the Grand Mosque in Mosul.
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Pastor Kenneth Stewart who preached to the audience before Clinton arrived, was speechless after Clinton's remarks, openly crying from the pulpit after her remarks.
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From the pulpit, leading cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani urges the deeply conservative crowd to stay true to the principles of the revolution.
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They're not standing at the pulpit and telling their congregations who to vote for — that would run afoul of IRS rules governing nonprofit organizations.
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The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town often used the pulpit to criticize white-minority rule, which ended in 1994, earning him international acclaim.
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When he spoke out from the pulpit against Mr. Trump's denigrating comments about immigrants early this year, he said, a family left his church.
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Sitting there looking at Father, I wondered whether he had ever wished that one of his children would take his place at the pulpit?
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Phillips began recording songs when he was 47, old enough to have sussed out a few hypocrites in the sanctuary and sinners in the pulpit.
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The 33-year-old View co-host took the pulpit at the Washington National Cathedral, where she gave an emotional and pointed eulogy — remembering Sen.
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This was the same mosque where al-Baghdadi stood at the pulpit and sought to establish himself as the leader of the new Islamic caliphate.
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After he ascended the pulpit of a Mosul mosque in 2014 to declare a caliphate, he would not be seen in public for five years.
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With Harris in the front row, Senator Dianne Feinstein, one of the state's most powerful Democrats, took the pulpit and called for the death penalty.
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Besides setting off a fire alarm, he triggered a deluge just as Brutus ascended the pulpit above the body of Caesar on the stage below.
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The militants' leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, proclaimed himself caliph from the pulpit of the mosque after the insurgents overran parts of Iraq and Syria.
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President Donald Trump has (so far unsuccessfully) tried to get rid of the Johnson Amendment to let religious leaders explicitly endorse candidates from the pulpit.
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If things had been different, Anthony Weber might have been the one behind the pulpit at the funeral the other day in South Los Angeles.
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A soft light bled through the stained-glass windows and flooded the church as she stood at the pulpit and led her congregation in prayer.
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He urged religious leaders to use what he described as their newfound freedom of speech to campaign from the pulpit on behalf of Republican candidates.
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After the meeting, Mr. Binion decided to make the information about the crusade available to his church but to not promote it from the pulpit.
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He wondered how, or even if, he would address the news from the pulpit on Sunday morning, and worried about how his parish would respond.
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Churches that once welcomed her in the pulpit would no longer permit her to preach, not because she was transgender, but because she was female.
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As Mr. Kruk first held forth from the pulpit of the Old Dutch Church in 2010, a very different flavor of Halloween attraction moved in.
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The Islamic State's emir, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, first announced the creation of the caliphate in June, 12.63, from the pulpit of Mosul's Grand Mosque.
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At some churches, clergy members have come out as gay or lesbian from the pulpit, while other pastors have preached that homosexuality is a sin.
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Wade, allowing pastors to politick from the pulpit while maintaining their tax-exempt status, sending federal money to religious schools, and legalizing taxpayer-funded employment discrimination.
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America's basic law was written in 1787 when democracy was young, there were no political parties and the principal mass medium of communication was the pulpit.
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The policy still allows a wide range of advocacy on political issues, but bars houses of worship from electioneering and outright political endorsements from the pulpit.
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That July, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the formation of a self-styled caliphate from the pulpit of Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri.
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A.B. Sutton Jr. has not yet spoken from the pulpit about the Senate race, but he said he intends to — and that he feels he must.
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Mr. Cuomo wound up finding an audience at black churches each of the last two Sundays — rare back-to-back appearances for him at the pulpit.
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The fellowship hall, with a kitchenette behind the pulpit, will be the sole meeting place for a long while, until the bullet-riddled sanctuary is repaired.
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Recently, with the researcher Linda LaScola, he published "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind," a book of interviews with clergypeople who have lost their faith.
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In 2014, he was a black-robed figure delivering a sermon from the pulpit of Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri, his only known public appearance.
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What's chiefly new is that this is now a media story, as conservative power has moved from the pulpit and the pedestal to the TV screen.
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Something of a cross between the televangelist Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh, Father Rydzyk wields power both from the pulpit and through his vast media empire.
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According to Porter, the closer you sat to the pulpit, the longer the walk down the aisle, giving more time to show off your Sunday best.
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But then, just as abruptly as he entered the pulpit, he left it and aligned himself with a different community and a different version of family.
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Another acceptable way to expose your vulnerability is to speak from the pulpit on a Sunday, and Mathis did that too, at Unlimited Ministries in Madison, Alabama.
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From the pulpit of the city's great mosque, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS, proclaimed himself caliph and turned Iraq's second city into his base.
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If one of the establishment candidates makes it to the second round, he will probably beat either the pulpit-thumping Fabricio Alvarado or the Trumpesque Mr Castro.
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I think the reason they approached her was that in preaching about it from the pulpit, she created a safe space for them to talk about it.
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The President touted action on abortion policy, his move to allow preachers to talk politics from the pulpit and getting Neil Gorsuch named to the Supreme Court.
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In a February poll conducted by the National Association for Evangelicals, 89 percent of evangelical leaders said they don't think pastors should endorse politicians from the pulpit.
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Despite another recent poll from Pew that found overwhelming support for Mr. Trump among white evangelical Christians, few evangelicals have been hearing such enthusiasm from the pulpit.
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When the pastor stood in the pulpit to preach, people anticipated that something was going to happen, that God was really going to move on that congregation.
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In just a few decades, women have come to dominate many seminaries and rabbinical schools and are increasingly taking over the pulpit at congregations across the country.
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On a recent Sunday, she pointed out a lantern near the pulpit, lit up by many wicks that were tied together by the members of the congregation.
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"In 2008 and 2012, there were lots of Black churches we went after because pastors were endorsing [Barack] Obama from the pulpit," she said in an interview.
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The Memorial is inspired in part by a 17th century carved wooden pulpit, likely resembling the pulpit of the first Martin Luther, which I saw in 2014.
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At the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), the country's largest Pentecostal church, some pastors are allowing MMM promoters to pitch the scheme to members from the pulpit.
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A gruelling month after the streets erupted in protests in 2009, he took to the pulpit to denounce Mr Ahmadinejad for rigging elections to secure a second term.
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But the militants regrouped under the banner of Islamic State, whose leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate from the pulpit of a Mosul mosque in 2014.
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He had recently opened a home for pregnant women in Lynchburg, which later became Liberty Godparent Home, and he told stories of their difficult lives from the pulpit.
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Having grown up listening to his minister father declaim from the pulpit of a black church, Mr. Branch gave large credit to him for inspiring his theatrical career.
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"We must acknowledge that there can be no realization of the American Dream without grappling with the original sin of slavery," Biden told the congregation from the pulpit.
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Most attributed their break to the senior pastor's decision to align himself with President Trump (he did not explicitly endorse from the pulpit, but his preference was clear).
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As Mary's ambitions become more apparent, John Knox (David Tennant), a powerful Protestant preacher, excoriates her from the pulpit in language that links her power with sexual wantonness.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Five years ago, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi mounted the pulpit of a mosque in Iraq to declare himself the head of a rapidly expanding terrorist organization.
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The Argentine pope hopes to use the pulpit of the Vatican, along with his status as one of the region's most popular sons, to nudge Colombians toward forgiveness.
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"Yes, it is, for some people, an extraordinary step for a clergyperson to operate beyond the pulpit and enter the rough-and-tumble of politics," Dr. Warnock said.
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Many clergy members, however, say they do not want to endorse political candidates from the pulpit because it could split their congregations and distract from their religious messages.
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Then, clad in a silver leotard, she appeared at the pulpit and belted out the first song of her set: "Worship," an anthem of confidence and self-love.
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The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the parents of Bryan Holcombe, who was near the pulpit of the small church in Sutherland Springs when Kelley opened fire.
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Right after Mr. Dobson blessed Mike Pence, and just before the congregation sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers," Mr. Robison took to the pulpit and asked Mr. Trump to rise.
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Then abuse survivors began speaking publicly, and the local news media began to investigate, finding that at least some of the accused priests were still in the pulpit.
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Weeks later the head of the extremist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, announced the formation of a self-styled caliphate from the pulpit of one of its mosques.
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White's images are both sexualized and seductive, beautiful and bloody; visions of powerful "women" laced with overt expressions of vengeance occupying spaces they shouldn't (the pulpit, the rock arena).
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From the pulpit, her mother said that Booker once told her she would do whatever it would take to live her truth, even if it cost her her life.
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"Traditionally white Democrats interact with black voters by going to church, getting in the pulpit, and saying a whole bunch of things black voters want to hear," she said.
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Jasper Williams Jr. took to the pulpit and delivered a message that seemed to take direct aim at how Franklin was raised and how she lived her adult life.
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This is especially true, she notes, for minorities or otherwise oppressed people, like women or the queer community, who have traditionally been excluded from the pulpit and the church.
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The policy still allows a wide range of advocacy on political issues, but in the case of houses of worship, bars electioneering and outright political endorsements from the pulpit.
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When al-Baghdadi stood at the pulpit of this historic building, it showed the group's acknowledgment of precedent and the power that mosques have in the Muslim religious consciousness.
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Winning back the city would signal the defeat of the Iraqi half of a crossborder caliphate which Baghdadi declared from the pulpit of a Mosul mosque two years ago.
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As we've first reported, there's an earlier service at 11 AM, where Ye will walk up to the pulpit and have a 20- to 30-minute conversation with Osteen.
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As for the cardinal, he may be a powerful figure in the Vatican but plenty of his compatriots have ceased to pay much attention to pronouncements from the pulpit.
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It is the first such Baghdadi video in nearly five years, when he announced the creation of the Islamic State from the pulpit of the Great Mosque of Mosul.
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A woman in one of the middle pews, holding a handgun aloft, calmly guided terrified churchgoers to safety as the pastor crawled down from the pulpit on all fours.
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It was from the pulpit of the Mosul Grand Mosque that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" over parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014.
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An Instagram and Facebook page "Blue Mountains Explore" shared alleged proof in the form of a photograph snapped by "a freaked-out tourist" at the Pulpit Rock lookout, near Blackheath.
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Plains, Georgia (CNN)With a healthy dose of humor and grit, Jimmy Carter returned to the pulpit to deliver his first Sunday School lesson since breaking his hip last month.
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While the archbishop is happy to pronounce from the pulpit, getting answers from him about his decision to reveal Lucía's real name and discussing details of her case proved impossible.
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He also rallies church leaders to speak against the death penalty because "a lot of people will change their minds based on what they hear from the pulpit," said Maly.
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"This is not merely unacceptable or wrong, though it is both, what happened in Flint is immoral," Clinton said from the pulpit of the House of Prayer Memorial Baptist Church.
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The last public video footage of him shows him dressed in black clerical robes declaring his caliphate from the pulpit of Mosul's medieval Grand al-Nuri mosque back in 2014.
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The last public video footage of Baghdadi shows him dressed in black clerical robes declaring his caliphate from the pulpit of Mosul's medieval Grand al-Nuri mosque back in 2014.
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The irresponsible rhetoric of our president, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment for everyone.
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"How is it that (Farrakhan) was invited to use a prominent Catholic church to denounce 'Satanic Jews' from the pulpit," asked Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's director of social action.
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It was from the pulpit of Mosul's medieval Grand al-Nuri Mosque that, three years ago, leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" over parts of Iraq and Syria.
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So when the pulpit no longer engages in prophetic, social justice preaching, then the poet and the playwright take on the mantle of what the church is afraid to do.
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But as President-elect Donald J. Trump tries to stop Carrier from moving more than 2,000 jobs to Mexico, the company is learning that the pulpit can be powerful indeed.
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The irresponsible rhetoric of our President, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment for everyone.
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As one elected official after another took the pulpit, delivering moving apologies to the African-American community and pledges to do better, the tone evolved from somber to reverent to hopeful.
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Michael A. Walrond Jr., 230, the senior pastor at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, wears jeans in the pulpit, rides a motorcycle and encourages posting on Twitter during his sermons.
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In the teaser, we see JAY-Z, with his daughter at his side, make his through an empty church toward Beyoncé, who is standing at the pulpit clad in dark blue.
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Local NBC affiliate WCMH-TV reported that witnesses said Schooler was headed back to the pulpit after stepping aside while the choir sang, when his brother followed him and shot him.
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ISIS took Mosul in 2014, and shortly thereafter ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the formation of a self-styled caliphate from the pulpit of one of the city's mosques.
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In doing so, Trump pledged to rewrite the so-called Johnson Amendment, the 1954 change in the U.S. tax code that prohibits church leaders from using the pulpit for political purposes.
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After that horrifying scene with Cersei last season, you can bet that there will be more than a little bloodshed as the city is torn between the crown and the pulpit.
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Paul, dressed in a long white ministerial robe, steps down from the pulpit and, while Jude is still in his father's arms, traces a cross on his forehead with scented oil.
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Finally, in a panic, he called ABWE and threatened to "get in the pulpit of every church in the country and say what's going on" unless he heard from Kim immediately.
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With little support by the Church hierarchy in Sicily, he preached against the Mafia from the pulpit of his church in the rough Brancaccio neighborhood, then controlled by the Graviano family.
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But opposition in Argentina hardened as Catholic Church leaders spoke out forcefully against abortion from the pulpit and senators from conservative provinces came under intense pressure to stand against the bill.
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Moreover, 87 percent of pastors said they should not make political endorsements from the pulpit, according to a LifeWay survey conducted in 2012 of pastors in evangelical and mainline Protestant churches.
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Nathaniel Dixon stood in his office in a natty pinstriped suit, looking more like a hip jazz musician about to hit the bandstand than a pastor preparing to take the pulpit.
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On Monday, he touted the steps he's taken to promote religious liberty, such as loosening restrictions on political speech from the pulpit, which previously could jeopardize religious institutions' tax-exempt status.
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That is, according to the ADF, the Johnson Amendment has never actually been used to strip a congregation of its 23(c)(2501) status because of sermons delivered from the pulpit.
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Often when we dig into the reason the sermons are not deep enough, it ultimately goes back to the person being offended or not having their faulty theologies endorsed from the pulpit.
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Recapturing Mosul would effectively crush the Iraqi half of a self-proclaimed caliphate declared by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from the pulpit of a Mosul mosque two years ago.
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When staffers combed the campus, sifting through the damage, they said they happened upon a stunning scene: An open Bible on the pulpit of the campus church, undisturbed by the surrounding debris.
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Murray's radical recommendation was that policymakers abandon "the podium and the pulpit" of ecology and saving nature and provide rural families with both seedlings and harvest rights to the trees they grew.
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While Congress alone has the authority to repeal the law, President Trump has the power to take executive action to affirm the right of churches to address political issues from the pulpit.
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In a February survey of evangelical leaders conducted by the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents churches from about 40 denominations, 89% said pastors should not endorse political candidates from the pulpit.
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TMZ broke the story ... Kanye will appear at Osteen's 11 AM service, walk up to the pulpit and have a half-hour conversation with Joel about his freshly formed commitment to God.
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Jones, who lives in Texas and is himself a member of the evangelical church community, has used the account to catalogue the high-priced items celebrity pastors are wearing on the pulpit.
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If rough numbers from multiple provinces are any indication, it is enormous, and it has sown fear among preachers who know that their words at the pulpit could cost them their lives.
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Opponents of the Johnson Amendment argue that the amendment may be unconstitutional and that this threat, though rarely enforced, has a "chilling effect" on what clergy feel comfortable saying from the pulpit.
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It would have just kept clergy from endorsing Abraham Lincoln from the pulpit or on behalf of their congregations, though they'd be free to speak out on his behalf as private citizens.
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Most of the world learned of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in July 23, when he mounted the pulpit of a mosque in Iraq to declare himself the head of a growing terrorist organization.
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He recalls only one overt political statement he made from the pulpit, asking Bill Clinton to carry the congregation's good wishes to the family of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
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In a February survey of evangelical leaders conducted by the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents churches from about 40 denominations, 89 percent said pastors should not endorse political candidates from the pulpit.
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From the pulpit at this week's Asian Development Bank meeting in Japan, central bankers and finance ministers from across the region fought back against the idea that international commerce should face more restrictions.
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He climbed behind the pulpit of Facebook and delivered a senator's sermon at the nominee, quoting from the Bible as he announced he would not vote to confirm Pompeo as secretary of State.
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The rabbi, Haskel Lookstein, is one of the most respected Orthodox rabbis in New York, where he has led Manhattan's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun for decades, after taking over the pulpit from his father.
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From Ayanna Pressley in Massachusetts to Ilhan Omar in Minnesota to Stacey Abrams' historic bid for governor in Georgia, black women are not just singing in the choir but preaching from the pulpit.
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The church appears to have a quiet "don't ask, don't tell" policy on LGBTQ issues, and hot-button issues like abortion and homosexuality are rarely, if ever, weighed in on from the pulpit.
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Today, as he sits in the church's second row, Eliseo looks with pride at something he built that's on display behind the pulpit -- a miniature replica of the stable where Jesus was born.
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But the pulpit produced little income; the family was impoverished during the Depression, Mr. Walker told a biographer for a dissertation; he used cardboard to cover holes in the soles of his shoes.
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" That is why Mr. Gillum was standing at the pulpit of the St. John Missionary Baptist Church on Monday night — cross and choir at his back — demanding that election officials "count every vote.
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But when Barber speaks in his rolling baritone, not just at the pulpit or on the Capitol steps but even in casual conversation, his back seems to straighten and his eyes come alive.
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Paul Knight, the pastor at Hope Church, took the pulpit in front of more than 300 people, most of them friends and teachers of Bailey's, and told the story of the prodigal son.
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If a church doesn't believe its pastor should talk about politics or candidates from the pulpit, it can pass a policy or change its bylaws to prohibit or limit that kind of speech.
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By contrast, liberal women — defined in my research as those in traditions like Episcopalianism and (most) Lutheranism that officially affirmed female leadership — fought for denominational policies that gave them standing in the pulpit.
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Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" spanning parts of Syria and vast swathes of Iraqi territory from the pulpit of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque nearly three years ago.
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From Louis C.K. returning to the stage to Paige Patterson returning to the pulpit, men accused of sexual harassment, misconduct, or sexism more broadly are going on what are, in essence, comeback tours.
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"Obviously, people who didn't accept the Irwins and what they were professing were ostracized from the pulpit," Ames explains – noting that, once the church was left to Irwin's descendants, it became much more restrictive.
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Using rhetorical skills that were clearly developed in the pulpit, Pastor Evan Mawarire has given heart to the opposition in an African country where opponents of Robert Mugabe, the nonagenarian president, had become demoralised.
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Over the past few years, I've heard the most appalling stories from LGBTQ Catholics, who have told me about priests saying ignorant, hateful, and downright cruel things either in person or from the pulpit.
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"The ultimate goal of Pulpit Freedom Sunday is to restore a pastor's right to speak freely from the pulpit without fearing government censorship or punishment," said Erik Stanley, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom.
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Ironically, after 60-plus years of the IRS strictly interpreting the amendment, there is no reported situation where a church lost its tax-exempt status or was punished for sermons delivered from the pulpit.
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In our lifetime, no president has matched Donald Trump's ability to summon the power of the pulpit, friendly media, and the tweet-by-tweet power of repetition and persuasion to move minds en masse.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took the pulpit at Riverside Church in Manhattan and made his strongest denunciation yet of the Vietnam War; a year later to the day he was assassinated in Memphis.
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Al Washington stepped behind the pulpit at First A.M.E. Church in South Los Angeles on Sunday morning and urged everyone to vote, as a "check on the madness" of this moment in American life.
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On High Holy Days, for example, when he asked the congregation to remember the unrecognized and the nameless, "there would be tears running down his cheeks at the pulpit," Fred Modell, a congregant, recalled.
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Mr. Pearson confessed his change of heart in the pulpit and endured a fall from grace as meteoric as his rise, with even Mr. Roberts pleading with him to take back his heretical words.
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The son of a pastor, Bishop Blake came of age during the 1960s, with Dr. King serving as his model for what a preacher should be — an activist in the pulpit and the community.
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Trump, first as a national candidate and now from the pulpit of the presidency, has not ceased to deny and denigrate the findings of scientific bodies concerning the rate and causes of climate change.
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Ironically, after 33-plus years of the IRS strictly interpreting the amendment, there is no reported situation where a church lost its tax-exempt status or was punished for sermons delivered from the pulpit.
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But three years after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended the pulpit of the Nuri mosque in Mosul to call on all Muslims to flock to his "caliphate", Islamic State (IS) is suffering two crushing blows.
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In 2014, as his group routed the Iraqi army and swept through much of the country's Sunni-majority north and west, Mr Baghdadi climbed the pulpit of a mosque in Mosul to declare a caliphate.
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"When you take vouchers, politicking from the pulpit, the trumping of laws by claims of religion, and the immigration order, that is just a smorgasbord of terrible ideas," Lynn said in an interview this week.
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He quoted hip-hop lyrics in speeches, sang "Amazing Grace" behind the pulpit of a black church and even performed a snatch of an Al Green ballad at the Apollo in a surprisingly competent falsetto.
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Instead, he focuses on William Greenleaf Eliot, a New England minister opposed to slavery who decided in 1834 to answer the call to fill the pulpit of the First Unitarian Church in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Facing a deportation order after years of checking in with ICE, the 53-year-old pastor left the pulpit at Raleigh's Iglesia Evangelica Jesus el Pan de Vida in June 2017 and -- with the Rev.
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Although the Johnson Amendment is rarely enforced in practice, its opponents argue that the amendment may be unconstitutional and that this threat has a "chilling effect" on what clergy feel comfortable saying from the pulpit.
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Even evangelical leaders opposed lifting the restriction: A survey by the National Association of Evangelicals released in February found that 90 percent of their board members believed pastors should not endorse candidates from the pulpit.
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I'm here to tell African-Americans today: if your preacher stands in the pulpit and tells you to vote for anybody besides Bernie Sanders, I want you to ask him, 'What would Jesus really do?
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It was not until July 4, 2014, that he seized the world's attention, climbing the pulpit of Mosul's medieval al-Nuri mosque in black clerical garb during Friday prayers to announce the restoration of the caliphate.
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The Church of Christ doesn't disseminate politics explicitly from the pulpit, but Baptists do: Every year, the pastor of the biggest congregation preaches a sermon in which he encourages his flock to remain single-issue voters.
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By the time King approached the pulpit at Riverside Church that early spring day in 1967 the gap between America's democratic ideals and its stubbornly unequal reality had, according to King, grown into an unconscionable chasm.
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It's not unlike preaching from the pulpit but in words that are universally digestible: This back-to basics approach highlights how despite the many issues plaguing their faithful, religion has survived the test of time. —A.
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But I recognized in my own faith and relationship with God that the things I was hearing from the pulpit and some of the things I was hearing from church members weren't how God saw me.
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We lost 50 queer individuals last weekend due to radicalized beliefs, and yet we lose thousands of LGBT youth on a yearly basis because they hear the messages from the pulpit that they are less than.
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There are also pessimistic expectations that Trump will use the pulpit to reinforce his "America First" narrative and thumb his nose at the attendees and the elitism that they represent and that his political base rejects.
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Barber speaks in a resonant baritone, with precise phrasing, but he is a true thespian of the pulpit: his eyes widen in mock surprise or squint in faux confusion at an act of outrage or injustice.
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From the pulpit at the McCain funeral and in the mainstream commentary thereafter, all we heard were calls for bipartisanship and how the late senator embodied the across-the-aisle attitude we need so much today.
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But as the person who originated the custom out of solidarity with gay and lesbian Jews, I am concerned that Mr. Kristof cites an oral legend that the orange represents support for women in the pulpit.
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"As clergy, while we do not engage directly from the pulpit, we do consistently preach about caring for the poor, the hungry, the refugee, the immigrant, and all of those on the outside of power," Rev.
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While Dyson is best known as a writer and sociologist, he is also an ordained Baptist minister, and his new book draws both its impassioned style and its moral urgency from his years in the pulpit.
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The leader of the group, who works at a nearby radio station, took the pulpit to give a political speech and denounce the local priest who had been publicizing church pronouncements critical of President Nicolas Maduro's government.
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When the Ranger asks a terrified citizen about Butch Cavendish, he is sent to the church, where he finds his brother's killer in the pulpit, delivering a sermon on Jesus as a man of peace and understanding.
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It was in Mosul, from the pulpit of the city's Great Mosque, that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, declared a caliphate, or Islamic state, that spanned the borders of Iraq and Syria.
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The United States believes Iraq is the location of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who stood at the pulpit of the great medieval mosque in Mosul in 2014 to declare himself caliph, sovereign over all Muslims.
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Stetzer acknowledged that "what you have is a distance between the grassroots and what's often called the evangelical leadership" on immigration, with evangelicals in the pews generally far more negative on immigrants than those in the pulpit.
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The Catholic Church was criticized in the run-up to the vote when priests used the pulpit during First Holy Communion ceremonies to preach about the evils of abortion to children as young as seven and eight.
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Letters To the Editor: Amy Sullivan's discussion of the so-called Johnson Amendment ("Clerical Speech Isn't Persecuted," Op-Ed, May 5) reinforces my conviction that clergy have no right to endorse a political candidate from the pulpit.
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The developments also come more than four years after the group's elusive leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, announced the creation of a caliphate from the pulpit of the al-Nuri mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
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He was still in the pulpit, even though news reports, quoting the secret documents, said the diocese had known since 1995 that he had been accused of sexual contact with a teenage girl in a church rectory.
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He was still in the pulpit, even though news reports, quoting the secret documents, said the diocese had known since 1995 that he had been accused of sexual contact with a teenage girl in a church rectory.
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Tutu, who as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town used the pulpit to preach against the injustices of white minority rule during the apartheid era, has battled prostate cancer for years and has largely withdrawn from public life.
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Currently, organizations registered with the IRS as tax-exempt under the 501(c)(3) designation aren't permitted to participate in political campaign activity, which includes endorsing or opposing candidates from the pulpit and contributing money to campaigns.
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We do know that this administration consistently has beaten at the walls of restraint on governmental authority as it attempts to censor speech critical of it, primarily in the press, and now, apparently in the pulpit as well.
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After all, it was in Mosul that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — the city's leader for two years before he became the Islamic State's leader in 2010 — declared a caliphate from the pulpit of an iconic 12th-century mosque.
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Mosul and Raqqa, Islamic State's main bastion in Syria, form the two symbolic capitals of a cross-border "caliphate" declared by the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from the pulpit of a Mosul mosque in August 2014.
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Supporters of the two men who had received settlements said that they were relieved Father Timone was now being pulled from the pulpit, at least temporarily, but that did not excuse how the archdiocese had handled his case.
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The centerpiece of the order is a pledge to allow clergy members and houses of worship to endorse political candidates from the pulpit, fulfilling a campaign promise that Mr. Trump repeatedly used to rally his most fervent supporters.
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"I don't actually know anybody who has endorsed or who wants to endorse a politician from the pulpit," said Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group representing about 40 denominations and 45,000 churches.
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Chamisa, a charismatic speaker who honed his craft in the courtroom and the pulpit, has won over young and unemployed voters who are frustrated with nearly four decades of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) rule.
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During the debates about women's rights and passing the Equal Rights Amendment, I repeatedly heard ministers insult and degrade women — and even call for their husbands to physically abuse them if they were not "obedient" — from the pulpit.
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Sometimes, on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Finley, who says that he considers Cohen "a great liturgical writer," read from the pulpit passages from "Book of Mercy," a 1984 collection of Cohen's that is steeped in the Psalms.
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms endorsed Stacey Abrams on Sunday from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church, marking some of her strongest public statements in support of Abrams since she won the Democratic nomination for Georgia governor in May.
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The service began when a white banner bearing a large green heart emblazoned with the word "Grenfell" was carried through the congregation to the pulpit by a Catholic priest and Muslim cleric from the area around the charred tower.
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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took to the pulpit of Iraq's historic al-Nuri mosque to declare his caliphate in 2014, residents of Mosul had no idea the extent to which their city would be devastated.
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So Ramirez Valiente stood at the pulpit at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Wednesday and told reporters he was seeking sanctuary to fight for the chance to remain with his wife and three children.
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I suggested he replace "gay" with "homosexual," the word my father was more likely to have heard, usually in the same sentence with "abomination" from the pulpit of the Mennonite church he and my mother had attended for decades.
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Standing at the pulpit in the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights on Wednesday morning, Mr. King quickly veered off course as he recalled conversations in which he counseled black celebrities about the realities of race in America.
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"Sometimes we start to think that the stones themselves have meaning," he said from the pulpit, which on Sunday was a lectern on a stage in an ornate auditorium donated so the church's members could gather for the holiday.
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But since the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of its caliphate from the pulpit of a mosque in Mosul in 2014, the Islamic State has claimed at least eight "provinces" in countries across the globe.
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Instead, her mindset is a hate that has been passed down from the pulpit, by church leaders who endorse a doctrine that is caging people's souls, ruining their ability to love and placing them in an entanglement of self-hate.
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That means it&aposs likely that more expressive, evangelical preaching styles including gospel could be making their way to the pulpit, like that of Bishop Michael Curry, whose passionate sermon about the power of love stirred up the royal wedding.
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The Republican source and the source close to Manigault-Newman said she'd had a vision for the Monday event in Atlanta that consisted of what now seems implausible: President Trump addressing the country from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church.
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Ethan Hawke gives a career-best performance as a pastor who's having an increasingly difficult time taking comfort in his faith, even as he drags himself to the pulpit every Sunday to talk about a hope that he himself can't feel.
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The minister talked to CNN this week about the email he sent Clinton the morning after the election, how faith is leading her "out of the woods" and why he expects to soon see the former politician in the pulpit.
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Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi shocked the Middle East and Western powers three years ago by appearing at the pulpit of Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque to declare the caliphate and himself the leader of the world's Muslims.
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"The Johnson Amendment has literally been on the books since the 1950s and it essentially threatens tax-exempt organizations and churches with losing their tax status if they speak out against important issues facing the nation from the pulpit," Pence says.
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The same messages that are being preached in the pulpit are the same messages that are being preached abroad, and it's being translated to understand that they believe this legislation is okay because these white missionaries told us it was.
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He held my card in front of him and struggled to pronounce my last name—not the first person to do so—as he called me up to the pulpit and asked me to tell the church why I was there.
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Worshipers, many of whom either survived the shooting or are relatives of those wounded or killed, still gather every Sunday, face the pulpit, put their backs to the front doors and sing gospel hymns, as they did 29 years ago.
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Hundreds of supporters squeezed into the pews, sat on the green carpet or stood along the sides to hear the El Paso congressman's speech, delivered from the pulpit, as a phone on a tripod beamed it out live on Facebook.
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Critics of the Johnson Amendment have long argued that it infringes on the right to free speech from the pulpit, while Catholic hospitals and other organizations have argued the contraceptive mandate violates their religious belief that birth control is immoral.
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"The ultimate goal of Pulpit Freedom Sunday is to restore a pastor's right to speak freely from the pulpit without fearing government censorship or punishment," Erik Stanley, a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, told CNN, which covered the event last fall.
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By the end of the 2011 United States Men's Amateur Championship on the daunting Erin Hills layout, the friars at Holy Hill were no longer surprised to look down from the pulpit and see several players sitting quietly in the pews.
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We've got to focus on bringing civility and respect back, and as much as I would like to do it from the pulpit of the Congress, I would be tainted with having an agenda that would suit a particular group.
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The law permits religious leaders to attend political events or endorse candidates in their private capacity, but they are prohibited from doing so from the pulpit of a church, or in a church publication or on a social media page.
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Antony took up one of these plastic sheets to represent Caesar's mantle, his visual aid as he descended from the pulpit into the crowd to describe how each of the conspirators stabbed Caesar, pointing at the holes where their blades entered.
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Her most recent solo album, last year's Aftertouches, summons shadowy holographic deities from the pulpit of her PC. In our initial email exchanges, Coverdale's responses were peppered with ellipsis, as if her thoughts couldn't be contained by the words on the screen.
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The pulpit is going to have to give way to [conversations between] human beings: how they're living life as a Christian, as a believer, whatever, and not marching in lockstep with certain beliefs, with those who would choose to manipulate the mass market.
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Directed by Saheem Ali, the cast includes Ato Blankson-Wood ("When They See Us") as the closeted Dembe; Robert Gilbert as his boyfriend, Sam; and James Udom as Dembe's big brother, Joe, a pastor who spews anti-gay venom from the pulpit.
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The irresponsible rhetoric of our president, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment than frankly I have ever seen and anybody in this room has ever watched or seen.
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Speaking from the pulpit at Magnolia Springs Baptist Church in Alabama Wednesday night, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore accused liberals, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and socialists of fabricating sexual harassment allegations against him in an effort to keep his conservative Christian views out of Washington.
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Here is how Pence describes it: The Johnson Amendment has literally been on the books since the 2501s and it essentially threatens tax-exempt organizations and churches with losing their tax status if they speak out against important issues facing the nation from the pulpit.
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I heard gasps and whispers as standout styles made their way to the pulpit, like the silver corset Adeola paired with a studded face mask by Leila Jinnah, and the chandelier-esque jewelry by Monirath that was matched with a sparkling-sleeved black corset.
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Mr. Jorgenson was among many Iowa pastors who publicly supported Mr. Cruz, though not from the pulpit, and he is not sure if he will vote for Mr. Trump in November, even though Mr. Cruz has now said he will vote for Mr. Trump.
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The irresponsible rhetoric of our president, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment than frankly, I have ever seen and anybody in this room has ever watched or seeing.
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He thinks Babbo Natale is an interloper and says as much in church, thundering from the pulpit now that Christmas is nigh, accusing him of elbowing out the infant Jesus — not from a manger in a Nativity scene, but from the minds of Italian children.
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The irresponsible rhetoric of our President, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment than, frankly, I have ever seen, and anybody in this room has ever watched or seen.
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Priests who are credibly shown to abuse children should be thrown out of the pulpit and identified to civil authority; bishops who cover up their actions should be laicized and exposed, and the order to do so must come from the top, from the pontiff.
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In June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the group, announced the formation of his self-declared caliphate from the pulpit of Al Nuri Mosque, ushering in the group's fanatical reign which punished Muslims and non-Muslims alike for disobeying its rigid interpretation of Islam.
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Speaking from the pulpit at House of Prayer Memorial Baptist Church on Sunday, Clinton told a largely African-American audience that what has happened in Flint, where untreated water has been contaminated with lead, is not just an environmental crisis, but one deeply imbued with race.
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This began with the Black Robe Regiment of pastors who also served as military leaders during the American Revolution and was forged during the civil rights movement of the 1960s when pastors like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke out forcefully from the pulpit on political matters.
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Though he released an audio message back in 2018, this is the first time the reclusive terror leader has been seen on video since July 2014, when he first declared the creation of the ISIS caliphate from the pulpit of the al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq.
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With national television cameras rolling, President Trump surrounded himself in the Rose Garden this spring with faith leaders as he signed an executive order protecting Catholic employers from ObamaCare's birth control mandate and protecting clergy from IRS punishment if they gave political speeches from the pulpit.
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NEW YORK, Feb 21 (Reuters) - U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who counseled presidents and preached to millions across the world from his native North Carolina to communist North Korea during his 70 years in the pulpit, died on Wednesday at the age of 99, a spokesman said.
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Trump, who has been married three times and derives his language more from the vulgarities of bathrooms than from the niceties of the pulpit, has also taken stances on key cultural issues, including abortion and gay rights, that are at odds with the Republican Party's white evangelical base.
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The work depicting St. Francis, for instance — taken from one of Benedetto da Maiano's 15th-century decorative relief panels for the pulpit of the Florentine church where Michelangelo is buried — had been dropped at some point in its travels and the pieces swept into a black garbage bag.
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Few American churchgoers have heard endorsements from the pulpit in the past few months of this contentious presidential race, but when clergy members did speak out in church, far more favored Hillary Clinton than Donald J. Trump, according to a survey released on Monday by the Pew Research Center.
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The summary document distributed to religious leaders at the White House in advance of that order suggested that the executive order would alleviate the burden of the Johnson Amendment, which "prohibits religious leaders from speaking about politics and candidates from the pulpit" — a statement that partly mischaracterizes the amendment.
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"—which appears to have borrowed its title and arguments from a wildly racist sermon that was delivered two years earlier from the pulpit of fellow Baptist Gerald O. Fleming—Jerry Falwell said, "The racial problem in this country is not one of hate—but one of Bible principle.
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In recent years, evidently hoping for a change of heart on the federal bench, the Alliance Defending Freedom, an evangelical litigating organization, has taunted the I.R.S. with an annual "pulpit freedom Sunday," during which preachers take the pulpit to denounce the Johnson Amendment and express their political views.
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Here is how Pence describes it in the video: The Johnson Amendment has literally been on the books since the 1950s and it essentially threatens tax-exempt organizations and churches with losing their tax status if they speak out against important issues facing the nation from the pulpit.
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