Word: pastoralized
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...Pastor Hall (United Artists) is redder meat. Its central character, loosely drawn from famed jailed, nonconformist Pastor Martin Niemböller, is a man whom the Nazi whirlwind strikes where it hurts most, his conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some political training, Pastor Hall (Wilfrid Lawson) tries hard to understand what the new gospel is about. What happens when he does, and winds up in a concentration camp, is uncomfortably close to modern crucifixion. Released by his friends, Pastor Hall is about to escape when across the street he hears...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, 68, founder and pastor of Manhattan's Broadway Temple Methodist Church; after a gallstone operation; in Manhattan. Onetime Kansas newshawk, Dr. Reisner startled sophisticated New Yorkers with his promotion schemes to "sell" religion (billboard advertising, Broadway entertainers in the pulpit, hymn-whistling services, preaching in costume) succeeded in raising $3,000,000 for his skyscraper church (still unfinished) before the 1929 crash...
...toward enlightening the people, Eleanor Roosevelt last week permitted herself to be smeared with grease paint, mascara, lip rouge. Next month, U. S. movie-goers will see their First Lady in the British-made, anti-Nazi film, Pastor Hall, whose American rights Son Jimmy has bought. In her prologue. Actress Roosevelt told why she approved the film...
...Jews, of which Jewish congregations lay claim to 4,000,000. For the 1,500,000 actively practicing Jews there are about 2,000 rabbis. Most rabbis (literally, teachers) are the spiritual pastors of a congregation; like a Protestant pastor or a Catholic priest, a rabbi conducts services, preaches, supervises the religious teaching of the children, visits the members of his congregation, marries them and buries them, is their leader in social and charitable work. For Jews who observe strict dietary laws, many a rabbi is required to supervise slaughterhouses, butcher shops, restaurants and dairies...
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