Word: pastoralizing
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...quite Friendship Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War, A Prayer of the Dying is the story of Jacob Hansen, the town sheriff, pastor and undertaker, whose only purpose in the life is to watch over and attend to his people. As an all purpose civil servant for a disparate community, including everything from the spiritual colonists of the Wisconsin woods to simple, hardworking farm families Jake struggles to care for and understand everyone. Added to his cares is the livelihood of his own small family, and it is from his passion to love and protect all these people that...
...Friday, choir members met with the board of the NAACP and the Harvard NAACP at the Institute of Politics. They then attended a reception with the pastor from Boston's New Covenant Christian Center, followed by an evening mixer...
...Friday, choir members met with the board of the NAACP and the Harvard NAACP at the Institute of Politics. They then attended a reception with the pastor from Boston's New Covenant Christian Center, followed by an evening mixer...
...victims the chance to confront criminals with the heartbreak they caused. The meetings' end goals, however, are rehabilitation and social engineering: they rehearse the prospect of a whole community once the prisoner is released back into society. Forgiveness is not a conference "agenda item," says Bruce Kittle, a Wisconsin pastor and clinical professor who consults on the state's restorative justice programs, but "we talk about it with victims beforehand. Particularly in violent cases, it sometimes has a more direct role." Says Walter Dickey, a former head of the Wisconsin department of correction: "What you end up with...
...still married and he is still beating her? Should the unrepentant be forgiven at all? Kittle, the Wisconsin restorative justice consultant, warns of misuse: "In religious traditions, there can be a sense of revictimization. They say to themselves, Here I am, and my child has been killed, and my pastor during my grieving period says, Jesus says you need to forgive, and if you don't, you are a sinner...