Word: pastorally
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...McCandless, Pa. Ten clergy and five laity met last week around tables arranged in the shape of a horseshoe for the second ecclesiastical trial in the history of the 23-year-old, 3 million-member Lutheran Church in America. Their verdict: the Rev. D. Douglas Roth, 33, ex-pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Clairton, Pa., was to be defrocked...
Responding to the complaints of parishioners, Bishop May investigated and commanded Roth last October to quit the congregation. Roth refused. May then got a court order directing the pastor to leave. On Nov. 13 the recalcitrant Roth was arrested and began a 112-day jail term. Released from jail, Roth returned last week to Trinity, which was padlocked by court order, and conducted a Communion service on the church lawn...
...sugary Amos flips his tricorner for Alice, but Mandy and the sadistic Mayor are out for witchflesh. Mandy, together with goodtime-guys Pastor Pryme (Tucker McCrady) and Judge Mental (Ron Duvernay), wants the witches for a traditional roast, but the Mayor has them in mind as potential subjects for "medical experiments." (This persistent line, even more egregious when pronounced in a German accent, is the one real misstep in a script which otherwise admirably achieves humor while sidestepping the truly tasteless.) Rounding out the posse is the simpering Mona Lott (Brad Daley), who has been carefully coached to shudder incontrollably...
...particular demand for boards are women and minority-group members. Juanita Kreps, Secretary of Commerce under President Carter, serves on ten boards, including American Telephone & Telegraph and Chrysler. Leon H. Sullivan, the pastor of Philadelphia's Zion Baptist Church, serves on three corporate boards: General Motors, Mellon Bank and the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society...
...month housing allowance from welfare will not cover the cost of a New York apartment, the city absurdly winds up spending as much as $1,470 a month to put up the homeless in flea-bitten welfare hotels. Buffalo, by contrast, has 450 beds for 300 homeless, including Robert ("Pastor Bob") Timberlake's brand-new $2.2 million, 153-bed mission, all paid for by private donations. Baltimore has no city-owned shelters; 100 street dwellers are turned away every night from jam-packed private missions. The city is helping private agencies raise money for the homeless by staging a Valentine...