Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes an hour and a half to write every three minutes of a good sermon," says the Rev. Bertram Apman, pastor of the small Holy Cross Lutheran Church in the Seattle suburb of Newport. Overworked at his job of counseling, fundraising, youth work and admin stration, he has little time left to pr pare his preaching, which is why "some of my sermons have been so crummy." Apman feels that most small-town ministers share his problem, and that the solution is to merge weak little churches into a few big ones, regardless of the cost in denominationalism...
...Jesuit superiors reprimanded him for reciting more of the Mass in English than the council's liturgical reforms currently permit. A pacifist, he is a sponsor of the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Last October he joined Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, the leading theologian of Conservative Judaism, and Lutheran Pastor Richard John Neuhaus of Brooklyn, as a co-chairman of Clergy Concerned, whose aim is to question the morality of U.S. action in the Viet Nam war. He is not alone in suffering curbs from the head of the Jesuits' New York Province. Two other members of the society-Fathers...
DAVID CRAWFORD Pastor...
...common to hear the lament that the poor, who can least afford chil dren, have the greatest number," said the Rev. Eldon Durham, 53, pastor for the past 15 years of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in the city of Lomita in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. "Repeatedly, the Pope is held responsible for encouraging large families among Roman Catholics. It is 'said that the Chinese and the people of India ought to put the lid on their burgeoning populations." Then Durham, the father of four, preached a modest proposal for Presbyterians...
...Pastor Durham's sermon was dutifully reported by the Los Angeles Times, and his telephone soon began to ring, he said, with "overwhelmingly positive" reactions. He was somewhat surprised at all the fuss. "I guess I am a little naive," he said. "Sex is the most important subject going...