Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just months ago, he was comfortably established as a theology professor at one of his country's leading universities. Now, after a substantial salary cut, he has become the pastor of a black-slum church, where worshipers sit on rude benches rather than in polished pews. Many clergy have made such sacrifices to spread the Gospel. But in the tense racial politics of South Africa, the decision of the Rev. Nico J. Smith, 53, is a dramatic moral challenge to the longstanding church support for apartheid...
...young clergyman, Smith was loyally progovernment. "I truly believed we had found the solution," he recalls. We were going to separate the people." Smith became successively a pastor in the N.G. Church, a missionary to black regions, the church's missions director and hen a professor at Stellenbosch, the harvard of the Afrikaners. He was also invited to join the Broederbond, the powerful secret society of Afrikaner elite...
...prayed to God to show me a way," he says. "The very next day I received the call in a telegram. As I read it, I burst into tears." A 1,000-member church in Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, was inviting him to become a pastor. Smith immediately said...
...Stuart Magruder, 47, former Haldeman aide and deputy director of Nixon re-election committee. Admitted plotting burglary and participation in coverup. Served seven months. Completing graduate study at Princeton Theological Seminary. Chosen last month over 120 other applicants to be assistant pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, Calif. "I paid my debt to society and more," he says. "Is anybody free...
...there is in our recent past an exception. Beyond any doubt, the most important force in the civil rights movement was the Black Church, personified by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and organized around the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Who organized the Montgomery bus boycott? Ministers. What did they sing at Selma? Spirituals and hymns. And there is an exception in the world--Latin America, where the Catholic Church has emerged as part of the vanguard movement for freedom. In the name of Jesus, priests and bishops have finally begun to withdraw their support...