Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grave doubts about most of the methods Negroes use to get them. In the capital, where politics is everyone's chief obsession, Davis' foot-dragging has turned into news because he is the minister who currently lays claim to the unofficial title of "the President's pastor."* Lyndon Johnson, though he sometimes attends services at Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist churches, goes most often to National City, the "national church" of his denomination, the Disciples of Christ. Last week Davis proudly made the President an "honorary elder...
FATHER FRANCISCO LAPIEZA, PASTOR Holy Family Church El Paso...
...situationist agrees with Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor who decided that it was his Christian duty to join the plot on Hitler's life, that "principles are only tools in the hand of God, soon to be thrown away as unserviceable." In the vast majority of instances, Fletcher believes, the principle will probably apply. Yet by refusing to acknowledge absolutes, the situationist can defend, for example, the World War II concentration-camp doctor who saved the lives of 3,000 Rumanian Jewish women by secretly performing abortions on them. Had she not done so, they would have been...
...church council who suggested the merger with St. Margaret's. "That way we'd have two ministers to split the work load and twice as much money coming in," he said, more or less in jest. Apman tried out the idea on St. Margaret's pastor, the Rev. Paul Christensen, who agreed. Eventually, both ministers decided that it would be best if Holy Cross's Lutherans become Episcopalians. The councils of the two churches then drew up a formal merger plan. If all goes well, the Lutherans of Holy Cross plan to be confirmed by Episcopal...
...Lutheran officials are outraged by the plan. They could not get Holy Cross parishioners to oust Apman as their pastor, but have persuaded them to delay approval of the merger until March. Recently the Rev. S. C. Siefkes, president of the A.L.C.'s North Pacific District, visited Holy Cross to warn parishioners of the doctrinal dangers involved in the plan-chiefly the Episcopal belief in the apostolic succession of bishops...