Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major problem facing us," he says, "is of religion itself, of promoting religion in a country and a world where people are indifferent to it." For the specific problems, Ramsey has prescribed some solid measures. Through widespread recruitment and expansion of training facilities, the margin of new clergymen over deaths and retirements is slowly beginning to widen; and last week the church got its first fulltime recruiter of clergymen...
While Piser was preparing his report from Rome, TIME correspondents around the world were reporting on how Catholic clergymen viewed the council's prospects and the church's problems, and gathering opinions from other intellectuals, theologians, philosophers, historians and sociologists on the condition of Catholicism in the second half of the 20th century. In all the correspondents filed some 250,000 words, which, along with at least ten books on the subject, made up the raw material that Religion Writer John Elson and Senior Editor William Forbis used for the final story...
Within the atmosphere of general hesitancy, many Methodist clergymen see specific obstacles to merger...
...opening of a city-wide week of prayer to request divine guidance for citizens and city officials alike, so as to spare the community any repetition of the police scandals that shamed Denver last year. Next Sunday, at the climax of this rogation period, more than 200 clergymen will read to their congregations an admonition from // Chronicles: "If my people . . . shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." "Recreation & Renewal." Not all the prayers were offered...
...sure-thing stock market tips; talented accountants in the congregation can help a pastor cut his tax liabilities; in rural districts the laity still follows the old frontier custom of helping out the preacher by stocking his larder with food from time to time. The once generous discounts offered clergymen by railroads and stores have been restricted, reduced or cut out. But on balance, says a lay official of the National Lutheran Council, "ministers never had it so good. If pastors had to settle for a straight salary, you'd hear them crying to Kingdom Come...