Word: pastoralizing
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...sure, Carl," somebody said. "But I thought I saw you right around the corner there on McKinley when the tank came by. Or maybe smelled you, it was." Everybody laughed, and Judy Ingqvist, Pastor Dave's wife, spoke up, "It's called dramatic license. You improve on reality a little bit, in order to make a point. Like the parables in the Bible." There was an uncomfortable silence after that. Sounded like more of Dave's gosh-darn liberal doctrine to them. The Bible as literature is not a concept that has made much headway around here...
Dennis Orsen's reasons for being at the festival are mainly evangelical. A balding Lutheran pastor in a pale suit, the peripatetic Orsen recently settled in nearby Steubenville and found the local culture as difficult to crack as a Zen riddle. Someone suggested he read James Wright. And has this helped at all? "There's one poem about football -- when I saw that, I said to myself, boy, that explains a lot of what I'm working with," he answers...
...This pastor, however, is a man of sometimes jarring contradictions. Onstage he comes across as an average guy commiserating about the little trials that face us all; yet, with earnings estimated at $57 million this year, he makes more money than any other entertainer on the globe. He is TV's best-loved family man, yet he firmly shields his own wife and five children from publicity. He shies away from the praise of peers by refusing to accept Emmy nominations; yet he flaunts his doctor's degree in education, earned at age 39. As a performer, he radiates childlike...
Homestead's black leaders generally supported the fingerprinting tactic. The Rev. Donald Turner, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, volunteered his prints and urged others to cooperate. "We're not here to prove you are the rapist," he told members of the black community, which makes up 40% of Homestead's population. "We want to prove that you are not the rapist." Alice Kirkland, president of the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., said her group would not oppose anyone who wanted to volunteer prints, adding, "We've had no complaints from the residents so far." One of two black officers...
...Bakkers and their close aides drew colossal bonuses with the approval of PTL's complaisant seven-member board. "We directed very little, but we approved a considerable amount," says former Board Member J. Don George, pastor of the 4,500-member Calvary Temple in Irving, Texas. In a series of confidential board minutes for November and December 1986, subsequently obtained by TIME, no numbers are listed for the bonus granted to Jim and Tammy and to Richard Dortch, a top aide who joined PTL in 1984 and was defrocked along with his boss in the wake of the Hahn scandal...