Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before denying the existence of Hell, one should consider God's infinite capacity for justice. Evidently this is something that Pastor Kinsolving has neglected...
...Christine Nystrom had the glow of a model 16-year-old. "Of our four children, Chrissy was the one who could make a friend," said her father, tall, greying Fred Nystrom, co-founder and vice president of a construction machinery firm. "Whatever she does, she does well," added the pastor of Mount Vernon's First Presbyterian Church, who supervised Christine's work as president of the interchurch Youth Council. "A lovely, attractive girl, and always dependable," said the dean of girls at A. B. Davis High School, where Christine was honor student, cheerleader and senior class marshal...
...possible trial for vehicular homicide and grand larceny. She wandered aimlessly through the Nystroms' three-story Georgian house, once sat down to pen a short, sad note to Sperling's wife and son: "I wish it could have been me, instead of he, who died." Her pastor called to pray with her; a psychiatrist chatted with her for an hour and concluded: "I guess it amounts to the fact that there are two Christine Nystroms." Heartbroken and haggard, Fred Nystrom could only ponder the lives that Mount Vernon's model girl had mangled...
...international affairs and nuclear energy. Out of their meetings grew the idea that Protestantism should set up a permanent organization in the capital. Selected to head the new project was the Rev. Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer, 58, a California-born Congregational minister who served from 1939 to 1949 as pastor of Washington's Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, has since been active in church administration. Dr. Buschmeyer currently has a staff of five working on the second floor of the mansion on Maryland Avenue once owned by Senator Hiram Johnson...
...addition to beefing up Memo's content and publishing it regularly each fortnight. Pastor Buschmeyer plans to see as much as possible of Congressmen and officials to answer questions and air views. Says he: "Nine-tenths of all Americans want to be good citizens. But eight-tenths don't see any connection between religious and moral convictions and economic and political convictions...