Word: clergyman
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...ironically, by a black dancer.) The second half explores the nature of religious faith in an age plagued by evils like AIDS. It includes gospel singing, minstrel-show dancing and an improvised, unscripted conversation on whether the disease is God's punishment for homosexuality, conducted between Jones and a clergyman recruited from the local community. The piece concludes with the entire cast, along with previously selected volunteers from the audience, standing nude and silent onstage...
...antidrug raid gone awry leads to the death of a clergyman...
...latest book is a novel, The Vicar of Sorrows (Norton; 391 pages; $23), about a lost Anglican clergyman. It represents the author's serious side, but the material is a bit balky. Handsome, remote Francis Kreer, vicar of St. Birinus, no longer believes in God or loves his wife. His troubling daughter Jessica means more to him, but not quite enough. Kreer's decline begins when his mother changes her will, leaving him about half what he expected. Suddenly he finds himself no longer competent to deal with petty parochial rifts. Before long he is besotted with a pretty young...
...besotted clergyman is A.N. Wilson's The Vicar of Sorrows...
...What will they say about this generation-the 'me' generation?" Sharpton asked. "As a clergyman, there is nothing harder than preaching the funeral of an unproductive person...