Word: pastoralizing
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...month. The Nelsons are also prepared to spend an additional $600 or so each month to help their only child with living expenses and payments on a $15,000 student loan. "We'll happily underwrite this experience for her," says Annalise's father Jim, 67, a retired pastor in Minneapolis, Minn. "It's a good thing, though, that we live frugally and have the handy cash to be able to do this." Whether it's delaying retirement, putting off a major trip or holding on to the house so there's a spare room for Junior to come home...
Suddenly there was a knock on Jimmy Carter's suite at his hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, interrupting his scheduled interview with Flora Lewis of the New York Times. It was a member of Fidel Castro's entourage telling Carter's advisor, Robert Pastor, that the Cuban dictator was even then walking down from his suite three floors up en route to meet the former U.S. President. For months Carter had been trying to arrange a secret meeting with Castro: they eventually decided that the occasion of Carlos Andres Perez's inauguration as President of Venezuela in late February 1989 would...
...Christian right has attacked the Administration for making even tepid criticisms of Israel's military offensive, warning Bush against ceding the "moral clarity" of the war on terrorism. "We're concerned there's a duplicitous interpretation of the Bush doctrine--one for America and one for Israel," says Texas pastor John Hagee, who broadcasts his message on more than 230 TV and radio stations nationwide. Robertson told CNN that Bush's Evangelical support is "wavering a little bit" and that Bush made "a big mistake" by allowing Powell to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Falwell claims that for Christian...
...they were omnipresent, shouldn't they have been able to shield the boys from abusive priests? As I got older, I heard whisperings: Father Jim hanging out too long in the locker room; altar boys joking about changing quickly to avoid being cornered by the pastor for a heart-to-heart talk. Didn't the sisters hear the same thing...
...first and foremost because of its recruiting tactics. “Any member church, denomination or chaplain has to promise on the way in that they’re not going to engage in proselytization,” explains the Rev. Irving Cummings, president of the United Ministry and pastor of Old Cambridge Baptist Church. A church representative cannot approach a student to discuss religious matters without the student first expressing interest and giving consent. Doing so is considered solicitation. “We very much frown upon that,” Cummings says...