Word: pastoralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white, and the 30-odd who went to services regularly were cool to the few Negroes who dropped in. Thirty churchgoers are not very many. In the hope of increasing church membership. Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy of the California-Arizona Methodist Conference decided to give Normandie Avenue a Negro pastor. District Superintendent Ray W. Ragsdale appointed 39-year-old Nelson Burlin Higgins Jr. A descendant of four generations of preachers, Higgins is a husky ex-athlete who went through Louisiana's Roman Catholic Xavier University on a football scholarship, later trained for the ministry at Philadelphia's Temple...
Born Nathaniel Coles in Montgomery, Ala., Nat dropped the "s" to accommodate the "King" nickname after a nightclub owner put a golden paper crown on his head. He moved as a child to Chicago, where his father became pastor of the True Light Baptist Church and his mother the choir director. He was pounding out Yes, We Have No Bananas on the piano at the age of five, and at 15 he had his own band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless...
...Garden is sparse; the lack of Negroes on Graham's headquarters staff (one was hired last week) and the absence of what some Negro leaders call "social content" in Graham's sermons are cited as the chief reasons. Slum districts are likewise unrepresented. Explained one Henry Street pastor: "The crusade format would not touch our people...
...last fall, her parents had threatened to put Maura in a convent, whereupon she was smuggled out of Belfast and into England. There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took her to a welfare home to await a hearing. Lord John Clarke MacDermott, Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, declaring her a ward of the court, ordered that she attend only regular Presbyterian Church services, address no public meetings...
...last time a pastor tried to practice the Anglican ritual in a Church of Scotland kirk, a stout-armed Presbyterian shopwoman named Jenny Geddes hefted the stool she was sitting on and threw it at his head. That was in 1637, in St. Giles Church. Edinburgh. This week the Church of Scotland's General Assembly sat down in Edinburgh to thresh out a proposal that has already provoked an almost equally violent reaction from parishioners, press and clergy. The plan: 1) unite the Established Church of Scotland and the Established Church of England; 2) standardize the administration of their...