Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson was elected president of N.B.C.U.S.A. in 1953, succeeding Jemison's blind and aged father D.V. Jemison, a pastor in Mobile, Ala. As the civil rights revolution began, Jackson hailed the use of lawsuits, but he steadfastly opposed mass protests and the civil disobedience campaigns favored by King and his followers. Jackson's critics say that he envied King's growing fame; his sympathizers say that he was morally offended by disobedience to the law. As Jackson complained in 1982, in what turned out to be his last presidential address, "Many of our young people have been...
...confessor and the pastor of Warsaw's Saviour Church: "Because the government is absolutely isolated from society, it feels that the church is less dangerous than a legitimate political opposition." But if the church is strong in moral authority, it is hamstrung by the fact that it has no legal standing in Polish society and must constantly engage in a cat-and-mouse game with the state to protect its interests...
...combined. At a well advertised dinner discussion. Dr. Jean Nobel, noted Black historian and women's rights activist, drew only one Black undergraduate (and fortunately several Black Graduate students and staff.) Recently, Dr. Samuel Proctor--a leading Black educator scholar, holder of the Martin Luther King professorship Rutgers and pastor of the country's largest and most prestigious Black church--delivered a major lecture on Black cultural history. Only one Black undergraduate attended. This prompted Dr. Proctor to express both concern and sympathy for what he called the "lost" Black student. For a meant lecture presented by Black female astronaut...
Bigotry spewed into the open on Palm Sunday, when Washington, accompanied by former Vice President Walter Mondale, went to pray at St. Pascal Church at the invitation of the pastor. NIGGER DIE was freshly spray-painted on one door of the Roman Catholic church on the city's lily-white northwest side. "Carpetbagger!" an angry crowd of about 200 standing outside shouted at Mondale. A cordon of police was needed to protect the pair as they quickly departed...
...fear of death to family split-ups. In Middletown, across the Susquehanna River from Three Mile Island, a ten-year-old boy trembled and broke out in sweat more than a year after the accident; he was convinced that he had contracted leukemia. The Rev. David Newhart, a Middletown pastor, has witnessed several marital breakups. Says he: "Just the question of whether to relocate causes great problems. The wife is mainly concerned about the children, while the husband is worried about finding a new job and supporting the family...