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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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 At Little Union, police rode into the chapel on horseback and beat the pastor bloody right there in the pulpit. Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 4 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for in the pulpit 

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“In the pulpit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20pulpit. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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