Word: pastoralizing
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...split by culture, are black or white. But Cathedral of His Glory, a young church whose membership is 30% black and 70% white, is an exception. Maintaining the mixture requires leadership from the top and constant effort to involve blacks. "We have to explain we are prejudiced," says Pastor C. Paul Willis. "We are not color- blind. But it's not a prejudice of hate...
...deliver what he called a "major, major" appeal for calm. Said he: "I oppose all bigotry against anyone, anywhere. I abhor it. I denounce it, and I'll do anything -- anything right and anything effective -- to prevent it." Speaking for many blacks and whites, the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem's % Abyssinian Baptist Church, welcomed Dinkins' appeal but noted that it "should have been delivered months...
...purpose was not to argue about "dogma and doctrine," said A.M.E. pastor Cecil Murray, but to "ask what we can do jointly to help take our community back from drugs and crime." Such meetings, says Khallid Abdul Muhammad, special assistant to Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, "put us into a position where black people are now turning to us for leadership...
Washington seems prepared to accept the Sandinistas in the role of loyal opposition. "There is space in a democratic Nicaragua for the expression of all political points of view," said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Robert Pastor, Jimmy Carter's chief Latin American adviser, suggests that Bush go further, for example by inviting Sandinista ministers to Washington along with the new government to work out the terms of U.S. aid. "The Sandinistas should be given as many incentives as possible for cooperation," he says...
...longer ensure public safety. Nine reform groups agreed to each name a Minister Without Portfolio to join Modrow's Cabinet. Former leader Erich Honecker was arrested and then released, being too sick to remain in jail. The homeless ex- President and his wife Margot are staying with the village pastor of Lobetal, near Berlin. Honecker will be tried for treason in March...