Word: pastor
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Instead, some members of the society embrace the credo of the Reverend Herbert Daughtry, the pastor of Miller's Church in New York City. Daughtry represents an unsystematic synthesis of conservative Christian theology, Black culture and radical economics. Viewing the practice of theology as emancipatory politics, the Pentecostal minister calls for Blacks to unite progressive forces to challenge the present profit-motive emphasis of the country. He likens present-day Black unrest and struggles to that of major Biblical characters who fought against injustice; according to Daughtry such a challenge is, in fact, the will of God. "In the West...
...refusal of General Foods and American Home Products to cooperate intensified the boycott. In October the Joelton congregation began distributing some 5 million boycott forms to interested churches, mainly in the Bible Belt. The local church distributes the forms to members. The forms are returned to the pastor, who sends them back to Joelton. Hurt then informs the targeted companies how many people are participating...
Maggi-Meg Reed superbly plays the wisecracking chorus girl who takes Ruby under her wing (a resemblance to Joan Blondell certainly helps). The chorus-girl's argumentative romance with yet another sailor (Frank Pastor) makes Ruby's saccharine affair a little less cloying. Although conducted in a duet which dreamily imitates the worst of Cole Porter, Mona Kent's seduction of the wealthy Captain injects some welcome opportunism into an otherwise hopelessly unworldly world. Goodness prevails, but, gratifyingly, even the selfish end up happy in Dames...
...sterile, wooden--the white church in the middle of Medford Square conjures up the archetypes of old New England. What isn't dark or neutral is flag-colored, like the fife-and-drum wallpaper that peels at its yellowed seams. A red telephone, the locus, sits ominously on the pastor's oaken desk. When it rings, the sound is shrill, urgent, like the Oval Office hot line or the Batphone. But to Pastor Tom Michael, the caller on the other end transcends Zbigniew Brzezinski or Commissioner Gordon. For when the enemy is sin, each call concerns not law and order...
...shirt is bright red, too; it matches the red, white and blue in his tie and his blue sports jacket. And it matches his red Bible, which never strays more than a half a foot or so away from his right hand. "I am a citizen first, a pastor second," Michael says. Above all, he is a Christian; but he distinguishes his strain of Baptism from the "gray nebulous" of Christian sects, using a string of adjectives that pop up over and over again: fundamentalist, Bible-believing, born-again, saved. As a citizen, he has always kept...