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Born in Arbuttnott, Scotland, Dunn lived in Edinburgh until he was 12, when his family immigrated to Boston. Hisf father was a Presbyterian clergyman (there are seven in Dunn's immediate family) and his mother a graduate of the University of London. "We came over in a ship called the Celtic," Dunn recalls...
...There. Johnson, who maintains membership in the First Christian Church of Johnson City, Texas, began attending National City regularly after he moved into the White House, half a mile away. He found in Davis a clergyman who was not shy about expressing admiration for the President. In an open letter to the President, Davis declared that "I sensed God there" in Johnson's patient, painful recovery from his gall bladder operation. In the same letter, he also told the President: "You broke the back of religious bigotry in the United States." Returning the compliments, Johnson has occasionally invited Davis...
...mother asked her son how she should explain his refusal to go to a neighborhood party, the boy replied: "Tell them I don't want to come." On Sunday, when Concord went to church, Thoreau went fishing. "Have you ever yet in preaching," he once asked a clergyman, "been so fortunate as to say anything...
...wife were also aboard, and on arrival in Pago Pago, the group was thrown into quarantine because of a measles epidemic. Maugham added a tropical rain season to the measles, and made the confrontation of missionary and whore into a classic contest between righteousness and sin. What man (or clergyman) has not felt the visceral taint of the sensual in his ostensibly selfless concern for a pretty sinner's soul...
...need or want the Catholic Church's absolution [Oct. 22]. If it's forgiving that the Ecumenical Council is concerned with, then every Catholic clergyman in the world should beg the Jews to forgive them for the pogroms that were perpetrated by and in the name of "the Holy Mother Church" and those that by their silence they condoned. Their forgiveness comes more than 1,900 years too late...