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Aretha's father, the Rev. C. L. Franklin, was?and is?pastor of Detroit's 4,500-member New Bethel Baptist Church, where the preaching is so fiery that two white-uniformed nurses stand by to aid overwrought parishioners. Franklin commands up to $4,000 per appearance as a barnstorming evangelist, has recorded 70 steadily selling LPs of his sermons. He may not be a member of the Baptist Ministers Conference, but his Cadillac, diamond stickpins and $60 alligator shoes testify to an eminently successful pastorate. Just how successful is not altogether clear, although when he was convicted last year...
...legally own a concealable firearm in California). A Dutch underground agent who assisted Jews during World War II, Weidner says of Sol: "Over and over he told me that the Jews had everything, but they still used violence to get pieces of Jordanian land." The Rev. Harry Eberts Jr., pastor of the Presbyterian church where Mary Sirhan works and prays, says of Sirhan: "He is a Jordanian nationalist and was committing a political...
...laymen outside the confines of the church. In Los Angeles alone, Lutheran Minister Rodney Lensch claims, there are hundreds of glossolalia cells. One of the few parishes that openly espouses the charismatic approach is the Church of the Good Shepherd in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Its pastor, the Rev. Lloyd Weber of the United Church of Christ, had long been interested in Pentecostalism, and says that he received the "gift of tongues" three years ago. He gradually introduced his parishioners to the practice, and glossolalia prayers are now a regular feature of Sunday worship...
...light of the spirit of the declaration, there was some surprise that the messengers elected a conservative as incoming president. He is Dr. W. A. Criswell, 60, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation. Although long regarded as a segregationist by other Baptist leaders, Criswell insisted that his 15,000-member congregation includes three Negroes. There is no disputing, however, the conservatism of his theology. Criswell is strongly opposed to the teaching of evolution in public schools, believes that Genesis provides a literally accurate account of the world's beginning...
...grandson of Lutheran ministers, Fry was born in Bethlehem, Pa., and attended Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Pa., where he proved to be something of a campus rebel by leading a student protest for curriculum reform. Ordained in 1925, he spent 15 years as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Akron, resigning in 1944 to become president of the United Lutheran Church, a predecessor of the L.C.A...