Word: pastoralism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June 21, 1995. The Nixons, members of a tiny sect called the Faith Tabernacle Congregation, had refused to call a doctor on both occasions, convinced that all disease comes from the devil and that only God can cure illness. Charles Nixon, the dead children's grandfather and the pastor of Altoona's 140-member Faith Tabernacle congregation, clarified the sect's tenet: "We do not believe in 'faith healing.' We believe in 'divine healing' through Jesus Christ...
Evangelical Lutheran Pastor Vernon E. Little Arrow Carter, who is part Wampanoag, agreed that the lecture was enlightening...
...standard: the church does not allow monogamous, same-sex couples to marry. "I feel like my church has slapped me in the face," says Scott Anderson, co-moderator of Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns. "This is an action rooted in fear and not in love." Anderson had been pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Sacramento, California, until members of his congregation, opposed to some of his policies, "outed" him in 1990. He had been closeted till then and involved in a seven-year relationship with another man, which ended prior to the rupture with his congregation. He left...
...costly interception. White, who says he could have played better in that game, was either showing his age--34 at the time--or his despair at the burning the week before of the Inner City Community Church, the Knoxville, Tennessee, house of worship in which he is an associate pastor. Nobody could fault Favre's on-field performance, but there were a few close friends who felt he was in denial about his addiction to the painkiller Vicodin, a denial helped along by his being named the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player by the Associated Press. The Packers were...
BORN: Jan. 30, 1945, Los Angeles EDUCATION: Wilberforce U, B.A., 1967; United Theological Seminary, D.Min., 1994 FAMILY: Wife, Elaine; four children RELIGION: African Methodist Episcopal MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Minister POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: 114-16A Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica 11434. Tel.: 718-262-9700 As pastor of the Allen A.M.E. Church, Flake has easily retained his seat in Congress while building a major community center--including a senior-citizen housing complex and a private Christian school--that employs 800 people. In Congress he champions minority concerns and economic development, and his parishioner-constituents will probably return...