pulpit
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As a Christian minister of an American Baptist congregation, I’ve spent more than 20 years in a pulpit — long enough to know the difference between protecting a church and conscripting one.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
The surgeon general wields a powerful bully pulpit for health advice, and helps oversee the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Andrew Jay Schwartzman, a public interest communications attorney, said Carr is using his bully pulpit at the FCC to intimidate “a timorous broadcasting industry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
The Health Secretary has also used his bully pulpit to attack products he views as toxins, including pesticides and fluoride in water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
There was a crude outline of an adult male on the pulpit of a harpoon boat.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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Clergy preached independence from their pulpits, framing liberty and equality as moral obligations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
“Sometimes I communicate from pulpits, sometimes from bar stools, sometimes from public parks,” he says.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
Mr Johnson was never going to be short of offers of pulpits from which to project - and he's found one already: a column in the Daily Mail and Mail Online.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
King was crisscrossing a segregated nation, preaching from the pulpits, issuing warnings about the nation’s very survival.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
A second, and then a third, pastoral was read from the pulpits.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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