Word: pastorals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victims the chance to confront criminals with the heartbreak they caused. The meetings' end goals, however, are rehabilitation and social engineering: they rehearse the prospect of a whole community once the prisoner is released back into society. Forgiveness is not a conference "agenda item," says Bruce Kittle, a Wisconsin pastor and clinical professor who consults on the state's restorative justice programs, but "we talk about it with victims beforehand. Particularly in violent cases, it sometimes has a more direct role." Says Walter Dickey, a former head of the Wisconsin department of correction: "What you end up with...
...According to Reverend Dajad Davidian, a pastor at Saint James, churches and schools play an important role in maintain and strengthening Armenian life...
According to Rev. Dajad Davidian, a pastor at Saint James, churches and schools play an important role in maintain and strengthening Armenian life...
...group will then proceed to Memorial Church for a service officiated by Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Minister in the Memorial Church, and a pastor from the People's Baptist Church in Boston...
Look at the facts. Upon graduation, over two-thirds of seniors have participated in public service. PBHA draws 1,700 students annually to serve over 12,000 community members. Harvard does better than the rest of America: Of the 93 million volunteers nationwide, most do what pastor Eugene F. Rivers III scorns as "recreational community service"--baking cookies for girl scouts or baby-sitting for a neighbor. Only eight percent work in "human services" --in soup kitchens, shelters, camps and inner-city schools. Virtually all Harvard students fall into this latter category of real community service. Harvard students certainly care...