Word: clergyman
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...four years before all this happened, warning of this. I went into all these things we read in the press about the sex, money and pride. Those are the three areas I think Satan attacks God's servants on. I was told that many years ago by an old clergyman, and I never forgot it. And I learned from that moment on that I would be tempted in those areas. So I never rode in a car with a woman alone. I never have eaten a meal with my secretary alone or ridden in a car with her alone...
...anything but secure in Israel and the occupied areas, despite the faith's strong roots there and the government's official commitment to religious freedom. Author Amos Elon has written that Jerusalem may soon become a mere "museum" for visitors, bereft of Christianity as a "living religion." A clergyman in the city's withering Catholic community agrees: "I am afraid that the day will come when we will have the Christian holy places without local Christians." Church experts estimate that Jerusalem has 9,000 resident Christians, one-third of the total at Israel's founding. The toehold was further weakened...
...this revival, the bitterness and irony that should contribute to what little comedy has transcended the mist of the ages is lost in an atmosphere of comraderie. With cuckolding and a corrupt clergyman taken so casually by the performers, the plot of the play seems trivial...
...encourages homosexual activity. A Los Angeles representative of the gay militant group ACT UP dismissed Mahony's gesture as mere "public relations." But the number of volunteering nuns and priests was a reminder that such humanitarianism has a long Christian tradition. In 1758, for example, America's leading clergyman, Jonathan Edwards, volunteered to test an experimental vaccine during a raging smallpox epidemic. He died -- of smallpox -- at age 54, just a month after becoming president of Princeton...
Even more active measures have their clerical champions. The late British Methodist clergyman Leslie Weatherhead rejected the idea that death should be left to God. "We do not leave birth to God," he observed. "We space births. We prevent births. We arrange births. Man should learn to become the lord of death as well as the master of birth." At the very least, argue some clerics, the state should stay out of the way. "The Missouri decision severs family ties," states a brief by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, referring to the ruling against the Cruzans, "by substituting...