Word: pastoral
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...King do it? Carson points out that King wrote his dissertation while he was a busy pastor at a large church in Montgomery. Thus he may have been rushed in his citations. David Garrow, author of the King biography Bearing the Cross, speculates that King may have been "profoundly insecure" at the time. Garrow also observes that preachers learn their craft by echoing one another, so perhaps King carried that practice into the classroom. Even so, "you can't excuse this," says Garrow...
Throughout black history in the U.S., the church has been the central institution in the African-American community, a fact still true in a country with 65,000 black congregations. As Baptist Pastor J. Alfred Smithing Sr. of Oakland's Allen Temple Baptist Church puts it, "The black church is the heart of black life." Today, as never before, that heart is enduring strains and challenges brought on by apathy, social ills and new directions in the black religious experience. Urban congregations are surrounded by neighborhoods demoralized by spiraling drug use, crime and family disintegration; the churches face a looming...
...position of pastor was elevated in the Black church, Watts said, because "in a charismatic political leadership, the leader has to claim a disproportionate access...
...years later, the Osceola New Life Assembly Church bought the hangar, and the SST was thrown in for free. Pastor Ernie DeLoach began holding services in the hangar, with the pterodactyl-like mock-up perched near his pulpit. But now the building needs renovation, and the SST must go. Unless someone comes to the rescue, the church will sell it to the highest bidder. One proposal: hack up the plane into 1-in. squares to be sold for souvenirs...
Besides being the most forthright figure among the handful of bishops from the church's Evangelical side, Carey is a remarkable choice for three other reasons: as a pastor and educator, he has been closely associated with the charismatic renewal movement, which practices speaking in tongues and other gifts of the Holy Spirit; he has been a bishop for just 2 1/2 years; and he is a product of the working class, whereas Archbishops are traditionally upper- crust men bred in elite boarding schools and polished at Cambridge or Oxford. Raised in publicly subsidized housing in London's hardscrabble East...