pulpit

By then, my husband was a full-time pulpit minister.

After her memorable cameo, Carpenter wrote to Swift on Instagram, “thank you for working late, thank you for being a singer and thank you for having me” — calling her pop mentor’s pulpit the “only stage i’d ever wanna see on a day off.”

“This is someone who is a former president of the United States, who has a bully pulpit. And this is how he uses it? To tell the rest of the world that somehow the United States of America is trash?”

Feminism, gay rights and the Vietnam War fueled additional discord, with more traditionalist congregants opposing the ordination of female priests and reacting furiously to mainline Protestant leaders who advocated from the pulpit.

That, he suggested, could change again as a surge in hate crimes against Asians has galvanized pastors and congregants into speaking more forcefully about political issues from the pulpit and working more closely with civic organizations to improve public life.