Word: churchman
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...Warren is not quite today's Graham, who presided as "America's pastor" back when the U.S. affected a kind of Protestant civil religion, he is unquestionably the U.S.'s most influential and highest-profile churchman. He is a natural leader, a pathological schmoozer, insatiably curious and often the smartest person in the room. Like Graham, he projects an authenticity that has helped him forge an exquisite set of political connections - in the White House, on both sides of the legislative aisle and abroad. And he is both leading and riding the newest wave of change in the Evangelical community...
...types of libertarianism, but the range and gradations within the system of thought are extensive. Assistant Professor of Government Eric A. Beerbohm says that “the term ‘libertarianism’ is increasingly an omnibus term. It’s grown increasingly beyond the [High-Churchman of Ayn Rand] and economics...
DIED. Eugene Carson Blake, 78, eminent American liberal churchman who as chief executive of a Presbyterian denomination (1951-66), president of the National Council of Churches (1954-57) and general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1966-72) used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat's doggedness in a lifelong quest for union among Christians; of complications from diabetes; in Stamford, Conn. He strove to enlist his church in the fight for civil rights, and in 1960 he proposed the unification of the Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing...
Appropriately, South Africa's best-known churchman today is a Huddleston protégé, Desmond Tutu. Impressed by Huddleston's work on behalf of the country's oppressed, Tutu abandoned a career as a schoolteacher to enter the Anglican church in 1958 and study for the priesthood. He worked in parishes in Britain and in 1978 was appointed a bishop in Lesotho. That same year he was named general secretary of the 13 million-member South African Council of Churches (SACC). In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his antiapartheid efforts, and this year he became the first...
...spiritual children of Hitler." Boesak, a married man, was harassed by allegations, reportedly planted by security police, that he was having an affair with a white woman. His church cleared him of the charges. South African liberals predict that Boesak could be the first leading churchman to be silenced under the new emergency regulations...