Word: pastoral
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...look up the word reverend in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). You and your Protestant clergymen are hopelessly behind the times. The word reverend has graduated to the category of a noun, "rev'er-end-n-s: a member of the clergy: minister, priest, pastor . . . (saw the Reverend walking down the road)." Call me Reverend...
...trying to find a suitable substitute, and return a weary smile when hailed as "reverend"-or "rev" or "reverent" or even "revenue." Perhaps out of desperation, clergymen are the only Americans who customarily affect the title "doctor" after receiving an honorary degree. Admits Paul F. Bobb (D.D., hon.), associate pastor of Albuquerque's First Presbyterian Church: "I prefer 'mister' but let people use 'doctor' because it doesn't jar me as much as 'reverend...
...Francisco's First Baptist Church: "My suggestion to our congregation if they wish to be formal is to call me 'Mister Nims' or, if they prefer, since many are from the South, 'Preacher Nims' or 'Brother Nims.' " Lutheran ministers are properly called "pastor" and, although some high-church Episcopalians prefer to be called "father," most agree with the verse written by Episcopalian Henry Lewis, chaplain at the University of Michigan's Medical Center...
Eighteen years after the Hitlerian terror that wiped out 6,000,000 Jews, most of the people of Israel seem as bitter as ever toward the Germans. The mere visit of a German Protestant pastor to a Jerusalem school recently provoked a national outcry. Last month, public opinion forced Israel's top chamber music orchestra to cancel a concert tour in West Germany. A law states that no West German firm may operate in Israel...
Probably no Frenchman has worked harder for Christian unity than Pastor Marc Boegner, 81, head of the Protestant Federation of France until he retired in 1961. Last week Dr. Boegner was elected to the French Academy, narrowly edging Roman Catholic Historian Marquis Albert de Luppé in the voting. The decisive factor in the election was the last-minute intervention of a Catholic acquaintance. Eugėne Cardinal Tisserant, who came to Paris from the Vatican Council, ardently championed the cause of the first Protestant minister to win membership in the Academy's history. Said Tisserant to Boegner: "This...