Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monroe, a graduate of both Wellesley College and New York's Union Theological Seminary, served as a pastor at an African American church in New Jersey before coming to Harvard. During her college years, she worked as a youth minister at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square...
...control and power crisis. The more information (dirt) you have on someone, the more you are in control of that person. The next generation must be highly intelligent--or moral--as the electronic skeleton finder will come to everybody's closet. (THE REV.) GARY E. THOMAS, Pastor First Baptist Church Lowell...
...that money. Most denominations spend on staff, charity and the building and maintenance of churches; leaders will invest a certain amount--in the case of the Evangelical Lutherans, $152 million--as a pension fund, usually through mutual funds or a conservative stock portfolio. The philosophy is minimalist, as Lutheran pastor Mark Moller-Gunderson explains: "Our stewardship is not such that we grow the church through business ventures...
...push their pet social agendas, from tougher police enforcement to more funding for youth programs. Even ministers have found themselves in the dustup, grappling for gospel truths to soothe confused, outraged flocks. On the Sunday morning following the arrests, the Rev. Denzil Green, the 69-year-old white pastor of Flint's Galileeon Baptist Church, declared to his predominantly black congregation, "The name of the game is sin, not skin...
...least some of the distance is racial. Bruce Sikes, pastor of the Messiah Youth Ministry, says that at one church, a deacon came right out and objected that Sikes' street-oriented mission was bringing blacks into the church. And at Mount Olive, a white parishioner would not let a group from the black congregation in to practice a Kwanza ceremony. But Mount Olive has since started a race-relations workshop involving both the white Lutheran and black Baptist congregations--a sign, most St. Louisans involved in church planting contend, that this kind of roof sharing can be a force...