Word: pastoralizing
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...John the Baptist Church was once open 24 hours a day, a haven for people in spiritual need. But theft, vandalism, prostitution and other crimes on the church's grounds escalated so much recently that the pastor, Father Francis Gaspare, recently decided to limit its hours...
...play is so naively utopian, which is why the naive characters, Jessica and the pastor, express the point of view of the play. I think it's simultaneously important to have that innocence and also to recognize the situation we're in. For me, the Pirandellian scene was a counter-point: what actually happens when you talk about these things is everybody gets pissed off. The play acknowledges the reality of the situation and at the same time hopes that there can be a sort of transcendence...
...Rivers, pastor of the Azusa Christian Community in Dorchester, opened by calling for a discussion of how Black intellectuals can move beyond "distant exhortation and example" to work for social change...
...some women, who feel irresistibly called to do more, the only choice is to find a vocation outside Catholicism. The Rev. Marianne Niesen, 41, is the pastor of two small Montana Methodist churches. She loves what she does and feels a powerful calling to her ministry. But she still misses the Catholicism that shaped her life for her first 36 years, including 18 years as a Franciscan nun. "I was as Catholic as you can get -- Catholic family, Catholic grade school, Catholic high school -- even before becoming a nun," she says. "And I loved being a nun. I didn...
...McKissic, whose address was sponsored by the Black Students Association and Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Impact, is author of Beyond Roots and pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Arlington, Texas...