Word: pastoralized
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...meet God, I expect to meet him as an American." Though that may sound like a boast by Babbitt, it comes from the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War and America's indifference to the poor. But Neuhaus, 39, a white pastor of a largely black Lutheran church in Brooklyn, has always kept everyone off balance. When he led his parish in an antiwar protest service in 1967, he insisted that the youths who were turning in their draft cards join in a lusty chorus of America the Beautiful...
...Honest. Mrs. Ford's forthrightness immediately stirred up a summer storm of old-fashioned indignation. Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation, declared himself "aghast" and added: "I cannot think that the First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings...
...schism; it's a purge," argues the Rev. Richard Neuhaus, Brooklyn pastor, author and political activist. "Preus won't let us stay in and believe and practice what we have for 20 years. We are not pulling out; we are being forced...
...aspiring Protestant ministers are hurting for jobs. Evangelistic, Bible-oriented denominations like the Southern Baptists are still growing steadily. In more liberal denominations, with their tighter job market, congregations are hiring a different sort of pastor. Too many churches, says the Rev. George Hunter of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., "got burned during the '60s by angry young men," and hire graduates who want to perform in the pulpit rather than in the streets. When a congregation offers a "call" nowadays, notes the Rev. Vinton Bradshaw of the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the message is that...
Divorce is skyrocketing in Fairbanks. The Rev. Donald Hart, 37, pastor of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, figures that the pipeline has caused tremendous family tensions. "The men are gone for nine weeks and then come home exhausted physically and emotionally. They have a lot of money and nothing to do. They don't have the energy to hold up their end of the family and help raise the kids." And, Hart adds, "child abuse is epidemic." Recently the town's "crisis line" got a call from a ten-year-old who said that...