People have different opinions about women 'in the pulpit'. [=as priests or church leaders; in the priesthood]
The war crimes were denounced 'from the pulpit'. [=by priests and church leaders]
She uses her position as a famous actress as a 'bully pulpit'.
(..) "You fool! Now you will lose the one remaining thing you have from Hel- y o u r s o n!" "Until tomorrow, in the cathedral!" Freder sees a monk in the pulpit who preaches: "Verily, I say unto you, the days spoken of in the Apocalypse are nigh!" The monk's hand points to the (..)1927 Metropolis