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...graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., and St. Vladimir's, the church's growing seminary in Crestwood, N.Y., is not fluent in Russian. An open, easy man, whose main passions besides the church are music, gardening and cars, he is more a pastoral than an intellectual churchman. Among other assignments, he revived once-flagging Orthodox parishes in Alaska, where the Russian mother church set up its first North American outpost in the 18th century...
...churchman studies why 80 million are unchurched
...detainees Marcos has promised to release, for example, are charged with political crimes. Civil rights investigators can find only 17 political prisoners on the list; the rest are charged with common crimes. Thus as a sign of political mellowing, the prisoner release has become, as one dissident churchman puts it, "basically meaningless and hypocritical." Moreover, though Marcos has promised that mistreatment of prisoners will be harshly dealt with, the Commission of Jurists charges that torture continues in Manila's "safe houses," where pre-detention center suspects are held...
Saintly people who focus attention on oppression can expect to pay for their actions. In South Africa, criticism of the country's racist policies has brought a harsh punishment to Dutch Reformed Minister C.F. Beyers Naude. Pastor Naude, now 60, was a prominent, rising churchman and Afrikaner supremacist until the 1960 Sharpeville massacre prodded his conscience. He forthwith set to work to destroy his church's theological approval of apartheid. Naude is now barred from the pulpit, ostracized, harassed by government prosecutors and denied his passport. Still, he says that being an outsider in his own society...
...craft of the actor can be rewarding and happy. The basic inclination toward the work is to pretend to be or feel like someone else. You feel like a king, or you feel like an archbishop. That can be better than being a real king or a real churchman because they are stuck with that. Next month you, as an actor, can be somebody's uncle, and the month after that a Chinaman, and that's an advantage. There are times when your life is suffused with bitterness and misery so that you can hardly endure to wear...