Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concern itself with the problems of the poor. Last week, at its 179th general assembly in Portland, Ore., the church elected as its new moderator, or chief presiding officer, a man who has spent his ecclesiastical career ministering to the underprivileged: the Rev. Eugene Smathers, 59, for 35 years pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church in tiny Big Lick, Tenn...
...Fosdick, charged with heresy, had resigned from Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church in 1925, Rockefeller offered him the pulpit of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, of which he was a trustee. When Fosdick hesitated, Rockefeller asked him why. "Because I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country," Fosdick said. Answered Rockefeller: "Do you think more people will criticize you on account of my wealth than will criticize me on account of your theology?" Fosdick finally agreed to accept a pulpit call, provided Rockefeller would find him a new and larger...
...entire project, which is being conducted in cooperation with the Cambridge Fair Housing Committee and Fair Housing Inc. in Roxbury, is headed by Henry C. Hatfield, professor of German, the Rev. Richard E. Mumma, director of the United Ministry, the Rev. H. Paul Santmire, associate pastor of the University Lutheran Church, and Mrs. Mary Ann Witt...
Hagmaier approached the Rev. Joseph I. Collins, pastor of St. Paul's Church and former chaplain of the Center, earlier this week and asked to be relieved of his duties...
Reaction to the New Utopia among "straight" San Franciscans has been remarkably bland. "They only steal if they're hungry," shrugs one Haight Street grocer. "I'd do the same." One of the district's most sympathetic observers is the Rev. Leon Harris, 60, pastor of The Haight-Ashbury's All Saints' Episcopal Church, whose favorite anecdote concerns a stuffy woman parishioner who came in to complain of the New Utopians. Says Harris: "I told her to take a careful look at the church windows. She gasped when she realized that the saints, too, wore...