Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colonial Church, on the outskirts of Minneapolis, was designed by Architect Richard F. Hammel, 58, of Hammel Green Abrahamson, Inc., a Minneapolis-based firm. "Designing religious buildings is arduous," says Hammel. "It took six years of discussions and hard work with the congregation and its pastor, Dr. Arthur Rouner Jr., to achieve a harmonious understanding of the function and meaning of their church. But it is wonderful work, because something other than dollars is valued. You are designing for the celebration of human life...
Preach, nigger, preach!" Out of the darkness the voice rose-young, proud, urgent, female and black. It was an exhortation that might have been addressed to the spellbinding pastor of a Harlem storefront church, or to a Black Panther stopping pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed...
...funeral service will be held Saturday at 12.30 p.m. at Our Lady of Victories Church on Arlington Blvd in Boston. The mass will be said by R. Phillip Leplante, pastor of the church, and by Fr. Eugene Merlet, president and founder of the Pro Musicis Foundation, of which Loebig was an active member
...Hunthausen suggests a tax boycott. In Amarillo, Texas, Bishop L.T. Matthiesen is asking employees to quit work at the nearby Pantex plant, which assembles nuclear bombs. Clergy in California and Connecticut have been prominent backers of legislative petitions endorsing a freeze of U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapon production. Says Pastor John Thursby of Lyme, Conn.: "God would not be pleased if we return his creation to him in ashes." Other local congregations are backing a months-long, nationwide Peace March...
...suburb of South Miami: "We had two manhunts in my neighborhood in one week. One friend was mugged, another was assaulted and raped. My favorite storekeeper was beaten and hospitalized, and my mother was robbed twice. And I am just one person." Or hear the Rev. Paul MacVittie, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Miami: "My car has been broken into three times, my house has been robbed once, and my 15-year-old son was mugged." His wife, Robin, was mugged, shot...