Word: pastoralism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meant people like Hill. A native Mississippian with three children, the clean-cut, ever smiling 40-year-old was an ordained minister and regarded as an ideal neighbor. Yet his father had signed a warrant against him for assault when he was 17, and an ex-pastor confides that two churches had expelled him in 1992 for preaching the idea that came to consume him: that to kill an abortion provider was justifiable homicide. With Gunn's death, however, Hill found a more receptive audience: talk- and news-show hosts. Appearing first on Donahue, then on Nightline and Sonya Live...
...civil deputy of the county sheriff's department and chairman of the local Republican Party. He was also a religious Fundamentalist. With great earnestness he told investigators -- his fellow officers -- that although he knew his children did not lie, he couldn't remember any episodes of abuse. The associate pastor of his small religious sect urged him to let go, to remember what he was repressing. God wouldn't let him remember falsely, the pastor said...
...seems calmer than I've seen him in a long time. He seems right with himself." And he seems right with the fans, in all their variety. At a Saturday-night show in a Presbyterian church in Kansas City, Missouri, which began and ended with a prayer by the pastor, the fiftyish audience in rhinestones and T shirts responded wildly when Cash gave his trademark greeting, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." After the performance, Cash returned to his swank hotel, where a guest in a tuxedo called out, "Hey, Mr. Cash, welcome to Kansas City!" Then there was Dave Sheridan...
...Pastor is arrested trying to leave the country with $400,000 in cash...
...simply another example of a tragic police error but the pathetic end to a long, quiet life of doing good. Williams, a native of Antigua, had spent 40 years as an itinerant pastor in the Caribbean. Ten years ago, he retired and moved to Boston with his wife to be near their only child, who was studying in the area. On the afternoon of March 25, he was at home in the apartment the police had targeted. An informant had told them that drugs and guns were stashed in a second-floor room at 118 Whitfield Street. With...