How to Use from the pulpit in a Sentence

from the pulpit

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  • What Mullins has said from the pulpit could draw attention to this race.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The faith teaches that pastors preaching from the pulpit are proclaiming the word of God.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • One of the pastors, who had prayed from the pulpit for Ryan, looked confused, a Bible in front of him on the table.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • But that issue isn’t regularly preached or emphasized from the pulpit.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Hunter was removed from the pulpit in 2012 as the church took steps to re-embrace Murray’s vision.
    Gayle Pollard-Terry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • These ministers are therefore hesitant to speak out not only from the pulpit but in any capacity.
    Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In February, Hibbs was accused of breaking the law by endorsing from the pulpit.
    Gretchen Smail, Them, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The decrease in politicking from the pulpit will likely not have an immediate effect on the God gap.
    David E. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
  • Robertson said church leaders can mirror some of the tactics that the religious right use, such as discussing policy issues from the pulpit.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026
  • Religious leaders spoke out against women’s political activism from the pulpit.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 4 June 2023
  • Such religiosity can come across as pious and performative when delivered from the pulpit.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Unlikely candidate Haynes’ path from the pulpit to the stump took shape during debate over last summer’s redistricting plan.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Trump, meanwhile, has sought to maintain favor among conservative evangelical pastors who openly support him from the pulpit.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In the best-case scenario, this would include free-wheeling condemnations from the pulpit and from hard-liners, but little retaliatory response on the ground.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2013
  • On Sundays, O’Neal’s father preached hope from the pulpit, stories of his family intertwined with morals and truths and parables.
    Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Abbott threw his political weight behind school choice, touring the state to advocate for the proposal and even asking religious leaders to push for the measure from the pulpit.
    Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Covid-19 has upended the traditional Sunday service, taking sermons from the pulpit to the screen.
    Jacqueline Davalos, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The Anglican clergyman galvanized Black South Africans from the pulpit.
    Essence, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The proposal would use public money to pay for students’ private school tuition — a measure the governor spent a year pushing around the state and even called on faith leaders to advocate for it from the pulpit.
    Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 15 May 2024
  • American rabbis often avoid criticizing Israel from the pulpit.
    Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Many churches cross the line every year, by either hosting candidates or making endorsements from the pulpit, while rarely drawing sanctions from the IRS.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Jack Graham, the church’s senior pastor, prayed over Trump at an event in October and praised his electoral victory from the pulpit in November.
    Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 23 Dec. 2024

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