Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was no Damascus Road sort of thing," he says now, as he tries to pinpoint when he decided to become a clergyman. "No lonely walk where I suddenly saw a light and recognized my calling. Rather than one, a whole series of events over a period of time literally ganged up on me until I concluded that there was no better way to use what gifts I had to meet the opportunities available...
...When they find out you are a clergyman, they don't say, 'How can you believe this nonsense about virgin birth and physical resurrection?' They ask questions like 'How did you come to believe?' 'How is belief possible?' 'What does...
...arrange the wedding of Walton's back-up center, Swen Nater. The wedding was in conservative Orange County, and Gilbert suggested that Keith Wilkes' father, a Baptist minister, perform the ceremony. "We all loved the idea of blowing some minds in Orange County by having a black clergyman officiate at the marriage of a white couple," says Gilbert...
...complaints. The figures led Eadie to discern a "parsonic personality" among those who choose the church in the first place-persons afflicted with a "guilt-neurosis syndrome," who try to be "omnipotent and omnicompetent, on the one hand, and all-loving and all-lovable on the other." When a clergyman fails to achieve such inhuman perfection, Eadie notes, the results range from simple depression to compulsive sexual fantasies...
...with an intestinal obstruction was allowed to dehydrate and die instead of being operated on, Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Md., established a review board to advise its medical staff. The board, which meets regularly to attempt to develop ethical guidelines, consists of a surgeon, a psychiatrist, a clergyman and a lawyer...