Word: pastoralizing
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...dream, but it was decidedly different from the one imagined by Martin Luther King. Their vision allegedly went like this: a phalanx of skinheads with machine guns would invade the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. The congregation would be sprayed with bullets, and the pastor, (the Rev.) Cecil Murray, would be murdered. Across the U.S., other blacks were potential targets -- Rodney King, (the Rev.) Al Sharpton, the rap group Public Enemy, perhaps even a baseball player. An all-out race war would be triggered, a final, bloody Ragnarok of the races...
Stith, 43, pastor of the 500-member Union United Methodist Church in Boston's South End, points to a potentially powerful legal tool for achieving these goals: the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. It requires banks to make loans to low-income individuals or poor-risk companies in their own neighborhoods. It has been widely used to counter mortgage redlining and has proved a boon to the nation's 40-plus black banks...
Last December, with a similar $1 million grant from the Walt Disney Co., the city's First African Methodist Episcopal Church launched a Renaissance Program of 20 entrepreneurial projects. Among them: a loan plan that the church's pastor, the Rev. Cecil Murray, says will renovate 35 existing black businesses in Los Angeles, start up 35 new ones and employ 350 people. "Spiritual development cannot take place without economic development," Murray says of the church's economic gospel. Says Danny Bakewell: "It has to be an active principle. It is not something that you can just talk about on Sunday...
This small ceremony underscored the growing organizational savvy of the militant pro-life movement. The Melbourne boot camp, organized and led by Keith Tucci, a pastor and executive director of Operation Rescue National, offered its first batch of students a comprehensive curriculum of conflict. Antiabortion demonstrations seem, to the uninitiated, noisy, chaotic affairs. The Melbourne IMPACT training (which stands for Institute of Mobilized Prophetic Activated Christian Training) disclosed some recommended methods behind the madness...
...target groups we want for the church simply by locating points of desire. Somewhere there's got to be some judgment about whether these desires are appropriate." He rejects the notion that the job of ministers is to keep people happy and the pews filled. "A pastor has to shake things up," he says. "The point isn't to accommodate self-centeredness but to attack it. If you don't, then the Gospel becomes just one more commodity we seek to package...