Word: pastoralizing
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...each of the felony charges, Sanctuary activists seemed undaunted. Said the Rev. John M. Fife, 46, of Tucson's Southside United Presbyterian Church, a co-founder of the movement and one of the eight* convicted defendants: "I plan for as long as possible to continue to be the pastor of a congregation that has committed itself to providing...
...poor and elderly black women, each living alone, have been raped and murdered. In the housing projects and neighborhoods where the murders have occurred, there is a mingled sense of danger and deja vu. "A lot of people are saying, 'Here we go again,' " says State Senator Arthur Langford, pastor of a church in the area. Fear among elderly black women is acute: some are nailing their doors shut each night; others are sleeping during the day in order to stay vigilant after dark; still others are using their Social Security checks to buy pistols...
When some oxygen masks remained jammed in the overhead compartments, a passenger used a pocket knife to pry them loose. Tom Kojis, 44, a Methodist pastor from Algoma, Wis., comforted his twelve-year-old son Jonathan, telling him, "We're not going to die. We still have things to do." Nancy Hauser, 37, of Los Angeles said later, "My feeling was we weren't going to make it. I saw this huge hole, and we were losing elevation fast...
...eight months before the fall of President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. Two of President Carter's top Latin American advisers urged that Somoza be forced out quickly to permit creation of a new, moderate government before the Sandinistas could pick up the pieces. Other advisers were opposed, including Robert Pastor of the National Security Council. He recalls, "Pete (Viron Vaky) felt we could and should force out Somoza in the fall of '78, and I felt that we couldn't and shouldn't . . . I felt that Carter should not overthrow a government. I felt we were in the business...
...Copeland asks himself rhetorically, "Well, Brother Copeland, are you tithing to get?" His answer: "Yes, yes, yes! A thousand times yes! I want to get healed, I want to get well, I want to get money, I want to get prosperous!" Other advocates include Frederick Price, 54, the black pastor of a huge Los Angeles church, and Robert Tilton, 39, of the Dallas-based Success-N-Life cable network...