Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barton's praise is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that he was fired by the school board, which includes the district's founding pastor, Tim LaHaye, in January. The sacking followed a series of disputes about school policy that, in Barton's view, illustrate the dark side of the Christian school movement. First there was the narrowness of the curriculum. Says Barton: "Almost all authors considered humanists-Emerson, Thoreau, even Shakespeare-are often eliminated wholesale from the curriculum at many schools." When Barton opposed sending the school band to a political rally...
...number of Christian leaders in Africa is small, Foster says--about 90 per cent of all trained ministers work in North America. "That kind of imbalance means there's big work to do at other places," he says. In Angola, for instance, "there is one pastor for ten churches." It is this need that Foster hopes to fill--after he graduates from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in nearby South Hamilton, Mass., he will be ready to begin training church leaders...
...downtown Shanghai, a standing-room-only congregation of 800 packs the handsome brick Church of Abundant Grace. After a resounding rendition in Chinese of the hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, worshipers listen as Pastor Li Wentsai exhorts them to "abide in Jesus"continually, not just on Sundays. The church is one of five Protestant churches in Shanghai, and more than 100 nationwide, that have just been reopened...
...withdrew its support from the El Salvadoran government, the result would be "polarization" of the many factions and the "killing of 200,000 people." Robert Pastor, National Security Council adviser for Latin America, said...
Below the pastor, his congregation, spread on row after row of folding chairs, sways and chimes its agreement. But when the time comes for the sinners to step forth and feel the cleansing power, only three walk to the altar. Maybe the pastor has been preaching to the already converted; if Cambridge is any indication, though, there'll be plenty of elbow room in heaven...