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Trained at Jamaica's United Theological College and London University, Potter was pastor of a Methodist church in Haiti until 1954, when he joined the W.C.C.'s youth department. Haiti helped to mold his view that the word of God must be accompanied by social action. "How dare I go well fed to talk to hungry, unlearned people about the fact that they must be saved," he asks, "and not roll up my sleeves?" During the 1960s, he served a seven-year stint as field secretary for Africa and the West Indies for the British Methodist Missionary Society...
...Southern Baptists-in the right to segregate. "The Bible teaches freedom of choice," Maddox insists privately. "Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?" Any racism in his church messages, however, is only implied. Moreover, claims Maddox's pastor, the Rev. R.B. Sims, "the Lester Maddox of today and the Lester Maddox of the Pickrick days are different. He has more compassion...
...late Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the pulpit at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church served as a launching platform for an often influential, always controversial 24-year career in Congress. Now the believers at Abyssinian have elected a new pastor, but he vows to succeed Powell only in the pulpit. "I have no political ambitions," says the Rev. Dr. Samuel Proctor, 51. "A church needs care from a dynamic pastor who has the membership at heart." Proctor, however, has a few involvements of his own. He plans to keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American...
...comfortable white frame house on an unfarmed farm in southern Vermont. For discipline, the author knots on a necktie and travels a few miles to an office in the parish house of the Manchester Episcopal Church. For three months last winter, when the church was without a regular pastor, he preached the Sunday sermons. He feels sure that none of his temporary parishioners, most of whom are elderly women, has read a line of his fiction...
...good many years Buechner's religious experiences did not seem digestible, at least in literary terms. His fourth novel, for instance, The Final Beast, published in 1965, was an embarrassing attempt to deal with the strangeness of being a pastor. Buechner, however, seems to have found an acceptable way to deal with religious mysteries in fiction. His stratagem is to leave the I very existence of such mysteries an open question. As a faith healer Bebb is certainly half a fraud, and possibly two halves of one. But Antonio accepts Bebb without worrying much about his genuineness...