Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kingdom of God is more than ushering on Sundays." He agreed to be nominated, then suddenly withdrew his candidacy. His reason: he had searched his heart and found that God willed it. That left the way clear for a crusading conservative, the Rev. K. Owen White, 60, a Houston pastor and president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He won by a scant 157 votes out of more than 8,000 cast over a little-known, third-choice moderate. White was the engineer of the 1962 convention's repudiation of liberal scholarship in Baptist seminaries. Focus...
Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, wearing a pale blue dress of silk shantung and carrying a bouquet of spring flowers, and Nelson Rockefeller, 54, were married by the Rev. Marshall L. Smith, a Presbyterian who is pastor of the interdenominational Union Church of Pocantico Hills. Margaretta is also a Presbyterian; Rockefeller is a Baptist. Only a dozen persons, members of both families, were present...
...most decorated Navy chaplains of World War II. After collecting the Silver Star for tending a wounded marine under fire, McCorkle finished the war as an Annapolis chaplain. Now he tends a 1,100-member church in Bristol, Tenn., and describes himself as a "garden variety pastor...
About two miles away, at St. Stephen's parish in Boston's South End, Cuban-born Father Pastor Sotolongo, 29, tries a person-to-person approach. No civic crusader, he spends most of his 20-hour working day quietly trying to provide the basic material needs-food, clothing, shelter-of his largely Puerto Rican parish. "The people who come to see me," he says, "are emergency cases. They don't have time to go through all the red tape and answer all the questions to get aid from the city...
...others are Protestants who belong to the sobersided Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship-Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians and Methodists. Five have Phi Beta Kappa keys, and six plan to enter the ministry after graduation. They date their experience to two campus visits last October by the Rev. Harald Bredesen, pastor of the First Reformed Church of Mount Vernon, N.Y., and a prominent advocate of glossolalia as a means of heightening the spiritual life of churches. His formula for speaking in tongues: put the vocal cords in motion, then prayerfully turn them over...