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Preach, nigger, preach!" Out of the darkness the voice rose-young, proud, urgent, female and black. It was an exhortation that might have been addressed to the spellbinding pastor of a Harlem storefront church, or to a Black Panther stopping pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed...
...funeral service will be held Saturday at 12.30 p.m. at Our Lady of Victories Church on Arlington Blvd in Boston. The mass will be said by R. Phillip Leplante, pastor of the church, and by Fr. Eugene Merlet, president and founder of the Pro Musicis Foundation, of which Loebig was an active member
...Hunthausen suggests a tax boycott. In Amarillo, Texas, Bishop L.T. Matthiesen is asking employees to quit work at the nearby Pantex plant, which assembles nuclear bombs. Clergy in California and Connecticut have been prominent backers of legislative petitions endorsing a freeze of U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapon production. Says Pastor John Thursby of Lyme, Conn.: "God would not be pleased if we return his creation to him in ashes." Other local congregations are backing a months-long, nationwide Peace March...
...suburb of South Miami: "We had two manhunts in my neighborhood in one week. One friend was mugged, another was assaulted and raped. My favorite storekeeper was beaten and hospitalized, and my mother was robbed twice. And I am just one person." Or hear the Rev. Paul MacVittie, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Miami: "My car has been broken into three times, my house has been robbed once, and my 15-year-old son was mugged." His wife, Robin, was mugged, shot...
Armstrong surfaced nationally in 1958 as pastor of a 3,200-member, all-white In dianapolis church in a racially mixed area. Battling some of his own parishioners, he integrated blacks and whites. By 1968, attendance and Sunday school enrollment were at alltime highs. Becoming bishop in the Dakotas, he helped prevent a bloody massacre in 1973 by acting as a mediator when Indians took hostages at Wounded Knee. He also be friended Senator George McGovern, even campaigning...