Word: churchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profile at a time when the secular world seems hypnotized by power. Nonetheless, after days of debate in Mexico City, the committee set up a loose minimal structure. More important, they decided to appoint a full-time executive secretary and offered the job to a Third World churchman, the Rev. Gottfried B. Osei-Mensah, 40, pastor of the Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya. Once a sales engineer with Mobil Oil in Ghana, Osei-Mensah holds a bachelor of science degree from Birmingham University and worked for the Pan-African Fellowship of Evangelical Students for five years before taking the Nairobi...
...Archbishop of York, he has been Britain's second-ranking churchman since 1961, and he is known as a fine preacher, administrator and scholar. Another leading candidate was Bishop John Howe, who administers the worldwide Anglican Consultative Council and who, at 53, may yet have a chance at the top post. Coggan is generally viewed as an interim leader; he is expected to follow Ramsey's precedent and retire at 70, which will give him only five years in office. Meanwhile other, younger bishops will be seasoned, and a logical successor may emerge...
...Baptists, the Anglican Evangelicals are generally not of the Billy Graham "hot gospel" stripe. Coggan was trained at an Evangelical seminary and taught at two others, in Toronto and London. Since he became a bishop in 1956, he has avoided party entanglements and is viewed today as a solid churchman popular with all elements. However, his orientation is evident in his concern for preaching, his longtime presidency of the world union of Bible societies, his interest in the "Feed the Minds" campaign to supply Christian reading to newly literate peoples, and his major recent project, "Call to the North...
...immediately ripped off when he finds that in the big city even getting directions cost money. "You think town is easy," cautions a relative Ivan finds in town. "I can sing," he replies, the young Elvis Presley waiting for his inevitable break. Ivan gets the name of a churchman who is to give him a job, and begins his move through a series of rackets...
Forced out of the preacher's household because of his romance with the churchman's ward, Ivan turns to running dope for a living. When he attempts to rebel against the strictures of the ganga trade--which lives under the protection of a corrupt government--the penalties grow heavy. Dope brings in high profits for certain middlemen; low wages are paid to the growers, and to the runners as well, who move the stuff between the countryside and the cities...