Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, and more important, I protest against the viewpoint that establishes the worth of a minister by the amount of his salary and by the size of his church. I protest against the whole attitude that a pastor can "work his way up" in the ministry, meaning that his ultimate goal is to become a kind of top executive. I protect against the usual definition of a minister's "competence," meaning how well he can lead, organize, and raise money...
Haunted, but Hunting. Among teen agers, says the Rev. Andrew Greeley, a sociologist and assistant pastor of Chi cago's Christ the King Roman Catholic parish, "there is a hunger to find some thing of significance or meaning. These kids are haunted, but they are hunting." Church leaders have tried composing prayers in slang for the generation raised by Dick Clark - so far with little success...
Some of the most useful fringe benefits are invisible to the tax collector's eye. Informed churchgoers provide their ministers with sure-thing stock market tips; talented accountants in the congregation can help a pastor cut his tax liabilities; in rural districts the laity still follows the old frontier custom of helping out the preacher by stocking his larder with food from time to time. The once generous discounts offered clergymen by railroads and stores have been restricted, reduced or cut out. But on balance, says a lay official of the National Lutheran Council, "ministers never...
...United Presbyterian Church's Board of National Missions pointed out that on a recent trip abroad, people kept asking her if Dr.King was still in jail (he isn't). "This made me realize," she said, "how concerned other colored peoples are about our racial problems." Added Lutheran Pastor L. W. Halverson of Chicago: "We didn't come here to be holier than thou...
...have a serious problem of our own up North. But we were answering the call of a group of churchmen for help." Pastor Roy, who promises to drum up recruits for another crusade if King wants one, found the affair "an opportunity to stand up for what we feel is right...