Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past, was Montgomery, Ala.'s soft-spoken Pastor Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18). Gist of the Rev. King's eloquent plea to the White House and Congress: "Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the Federal Government about our basic rights . . . We will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement...
...What? The Century's attack angered many New York ministers of the 1,500 churches that are cooperating with Billy Graham's crusade. From Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell, pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, came a reply: "Such attacks cause me no excitement or consternation. The decisions for Christ at Graham's meetings are not just an emotional experience. People who make decisions will be taken immediately into the care of the churches, and we very definitely expect to gather the fruits of the Billy Graham campaign by permanent organization, by teaching discipline...
...play in Manhattan closed last week after only three performances, but it was a smash hit. Students in the religious drama program of Union Theological Seminary closed their six-play season with a production of a play by a German Evangelical pastor that moved Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times to soaring words ("stunning," "remarkable") and packed the seminary auditorium with standees...
...Pastor Guenter Rutenborn, who is somewhere in East Germany, wrote The Sign of Jonah immediately after the war, for a Germany that was standing shocked and beaten in the rubble of the Third Reich. The one-act play was intended only for a church group, but so intimately did it speak to the anguish and anger of the time that Jonah ran for more than a thousand performances on a professional West Berlin stage and on the road. Slight in size, it nevertheless bites off a big chunk of cosmos, compressing into an hour-long performance a range that includes...
...think big, believe big. act big," his publishers are planning big (first printing: 100,000 copies) and spending big (initial advertising budget: $45,000). They also expect to keep cash registers Pealing merrily with an offer to book dealers: 15 copies free for every 100 orders of the pastor's backlog, e.g., The Power of Positive Thinking, A Guide to Confident Living...