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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Reverend Bryant, the minister of a predominantly Black congregation, mellow in private but fiery in the pulpit, unites a community in death as in life.
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The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
In his last years in the pulpit, Murray refused to slow down.
—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
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The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
In his last years in the pulpit, Murray refused to slow down.
—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
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“In the pulpit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20pulpit. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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