Word: pastoralizing
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...work on developing a program for the computer in his home study. Poindexter has been busying himself with the routine activities of any suburban homeowner: accompanying his sons Tom, 18, and Joe, 16, to the movies; attending services at the Episcopal church where his wife Linda is assistant pastor; shopping at a local hardware store and Radio Shack outlet to buy equipment for various fix-up projects around his Rockville, Md., house...
Among the NSC staff, Colonel North was discreet about his beliefs, but he has eagerly shared his experiences with outsiders. Two years ago, he told a complete stranger about a healing he had undergone. The Rev. Stephen King, an evangelical pastor at the Cherrydale Baptist Church in Arlington, Va., recalls that North sat down next to him in a barber shop and joyously recounted how a few years before he had been contorted by wracking back pain while in the field with a group of officers. One of the officers, a fellow charismatic, knelt down before North and prayed fervently...
...schooling) as well as something the preacher said. At one point in his sermon -- and here I must confess to an annoying lifelong lapse: I have trouble tracking sermons, and I could swear I heard someone say this one was taken from the Book of Macadamia Nuts -- the pastor said, "Now we shall all rise and sing hymn No. 508, Lead On, O Kinky Turtle." At that, my fellow parishioners fell to mumbling. The good reverend then blushed crimson and admitted that title stuck in his head because his own child called it that. Recovering his composure, to say nothing...
...neither has hesitated to exploit the other's weak points. Boosalis has tried to tie Orr to the Reagan Administration's unpopular farm policies, while Orr has pounced on Boosalis' proposals for restructuring property taxes as "devastating" to senior citizens. Few Nebraska voters gender an issue. When Baptist Pastor Everett Sileven jumped into the Republican primary and argued that female leadership "is a sure sign of God's curse," he finished a weak fourth, with only 2.1% of the vote. For a time Republican State Senator John DeCamp threatened a write-in candidacy to provide a male alternative to what...
...evangelists in attendance exuded simple and unshakable faith. "The hand of God protected me," said Pastor Krisnapillai Saravanapavan of Sri Lanka, recalling his banishment from his hometown and family after he converted from Hinduism to Christianity. After mission travels in Sri Lanka and India, he plans to return to his village because "that is where my call is." Christians currently constitute about 8% of Sri Lanka's population of 17 million; the growth of the faith, Saravanapavan believes, could have a positive impact on a nation suffering bloody division between Buddhist Sinhalese and his own minority of Hindu Tamils...