Word: pastoralizing
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...climactic civil rights march in 1965. But a racial line has now disappeared in Selma, as delegates from 24 congregations in Alabama's dominant Southern Baptist faith voted to admit the Freedom Baptist Church as the first black member of the city's Baptist association. Said newly entering pastor Letha Rumph: "I can see that a revival has begun in Selma." A white colleague, the Rev. Ron Davis, chimed in: "God won't let us fail...
...said Sheldon, who has become a religious-right activist as head of the Traditional Values Coalition. He has plenty of company among clergymen -- even those who shun direct political involvement. Floyd Smith, pastor of West Virginia's Hedgesville Baptist Church, also rues his one Carter ballot: . "To vote for a person just because he's born again is a mistake I won't make a second time." Smith wants a President "who will fight for our rights" against pro-choice feminists, atheists, gay-rights activists and others who threaten his brand of morality. "We're getting it shoved...
...Louis Sheldon, wearing the badges and buttons of an alternate delegate from California, took time out from convention proceedings to recall his brief fling with the Democrats. He met Jimmy Carter in 1976 while serving as the pastor of a Charismatic church in Anaheim. "He was the first professing evangelical Christian ((candidate)) in my time," Sheldon said. "His religious bent seemed to rise above the campaign." So Sheldon switched parties and became a Democrat, introduced Carter to other ministers and attended a White House reception when Carter took office. A disillusioned Sheldon soon rejoined the G.O.P. however, because "I could...
Local residents seized on a creative response early one morning last May, when members of Pastor Chuck Chipman's congregation descended on a gang- infested neighborhood to rescue a 12-year-old boy being forced to work as a drug courier for a gang that was threatening him and his family. Before gang members could react, the entire family of four and all its belongings were whisked away to a safe house...
...posthole digger for putting up the mailbox. But the girl next door, a minister's daughter who became his close friend in school, never knew about the furies raging inside the Clinton home. No one knew -- not Clinton's high school counselor, not his pastor, not his closest friends...