in the pulpit
idiom
: as priests or church leaders : in the priesthood
People have different opinions about women in the pulpit.
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In his last years in the pulpit, Murray refused to slow down.
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Gayle Pollard-Terry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
People, whether in the pulpit or in the pews, have starkly different intuitions about what the conventions are and should be.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
It must be inculcated in the home, in the classroom and in the pulpit.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
At Little Union, police rode into the chapel on horseback and beat the pastor bloody right there in the pulpit.
—Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
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Gayle Pollard-Terry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
People, whether in the pulpit or in the pews, have starkly different intuitions about what the conventions are and should be.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
It must be inculcated in the home, in the classroom and in the pulpit.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
At Little Union, police rode into the chapel on horseback and beat the pastor bloody right there in the pulpit.
—Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
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“In the pulpit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20pulpit. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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