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• And now there will be more words imparted from the pulpit.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021
• Davis, Fields, Phillips and others have participated in protests outside the church, calling for Rush to step down from the pulpit.
  — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
• The parishioners are respectable, restrained people who don’t like to hear stuff about fire and brimstone from the pulpit on Sunday mornings.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• But during the pandemic, some more mainstream preachers have spoken out against the vaccines from the pulpit.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2022
• Many of them still forbid the ordination of women; some don’t allow women to read Scripture or speak from the pulpit, or teach a Sunday-school class if there are men present.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• The funds are planned to help renew liturgical messaging from the pulpit — a homily — and better reach Catholic youth and young adults, according to a prepared statement from the school.
  — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
• The pastor of a Roman Catholic parish in Wisconsin who told his congregation to shun the Covid-19 vaccine and preached right-wing politics from the pulpit has been asked to step down by his bishop.
  — NBC News, 24 May 2021
• The Anglican clergyman galvanized Black South Africans from the pulpit.
  — Essence, 26 Dec. 2021
• Covid-19 has upended the traditional Sunday service, taking sermons from the pulpit to the screen.
  — Jacqueline Davalos, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• But that issue isn’t regularly preached or emphasized from the pulpit.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2021
• Church leaders openly acknowledge this longtime trend, but single Latter-day Saints say additional shifts are needed from the pulpit and in the pews to make the faith more welcoming.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
• Speaking from the pulpit, Father Torres urged parishioners to see the empty pews all around them as not just a manifestation of pandemic-era rules, but as vacant seats that might have been filled by those who died in the last year.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2021
• Warnock’s message taps into a long tradition of activism in Savannah’s Black church, which includes crossing over from the pulpit to politics.
  — Timothy Pratt, The New Republic, 28 Dec. 2020
• In April 2023, our Senior Pastor, from the pulpit, made our membership aware of the potential civil litigation.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 2 Feb. 2024
• 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.
  — Clay Cane, CNN, 21 July 2022
• Other groups, such as the First Ladies of Health, have organized vaccine clinics, and many Black churches have invited members who are medical professionals to speak from the pulpit about the need for vaccination.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 3 May 2021
• Early in his administration, Trump promised to abolish the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits clergy from endorsing politicians from the pulpit.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2020
• The pastor went quiet for a moment, contemplating what his message from the pulpit could be to a woman who had lost her husband to violence and was now preparing to bury her son, two circumstances of unimaginable heartbreak a few years apart.
  — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• The pastor went quiet for a moment, contemplating what his message from the pulpit could be to a woman who had lost her husband to violence and was now preparing to bury her son, two circumstances of unimaginable heartbreak a few years apart.
  — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• Such religiosity can come across as pious and performative when delivered from the pulpit.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• One candidate who got his approval is a Volusia County pastor who denied the pandemic and from the pulpit shared QAnon conspiracy theories.
  — Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2022
• Religious leaders spoke out against women’s political activism from the pulpit.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 4 June 2023
• American rabbis often avoid criticizing Israel from the pulpit.
  — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024