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Clearly on'the way out are the assorted discounts, donations and deals that ministers once relied upon to flesh out the modest salary that went with a pulpit call. In 1887, for example, the Rev. William E. Barton was offered $400 a year to serve as pastor of the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Ohio. As Barton noted in his autobiography: "The little congregation was generous according to its means." Every year there was a donation party, and the proceeds were given to the pastor. Sometimes the families in the congregation brought packages of food instead of money...
...that men of the cloth are getting more pay and prefer it that way; they would rather have cash in the pants pocket than 10% off on the pants. Moreover, they increasingly find the "clerical discount" demeaning. "I used to use a railroad discount," says the Rev. George Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church in Miami: "When I'm offered a 10% dis count...
...Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, Colo. "We don't use the Gospels or the Ten Commandments or the Beatitudes any more. Instead we talk about God in terms of the prisoners' experience. God has to be something they understand, not just an authoritarian father image." Says Lutheran Pastor Harold Lindberg, chaplain at Ohio Penitentiary: "I stress things like Paul's calling men to victorious living. Without using those exact words, I try to make these men agree that they are children...
...their sense of humanity is a primary task. Most first offenders are crushed by their loss of freedom and self-respect and are bitter about the inequities of the law. "We are dealing with people who feel that there is no justice at all in meting out punishment," says Pastor Currens, chaplain at the Minnesota Women's Reformatory, and he tends to share the feeling. "If you steal an $18 dress, you can get 18 months in jail; but if you cheat for $100,000 on your income tax, you can get a suspended sentence and fine." Another constant...
Liberals fret about De Saint Pierre's bestselling (200,000 copies) polemical novel The New Priests, which lampoons the experiments of Paris' young missionary priests. Abbe Georges Michon-neau, pastor of St. Jean near Montmartre, charged De Saint Pierre with throwing "priestly entrails to the pack of dogs who will buy your book and feast on them...