Word: pastorals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This is like being in a war," said the ethnic-Chinese pastor whose church and adjoining house were attacked during riots in Jakarta that left around 400 dead and hundreds of stores looted and gutted by fire. "All we could hear was things being smashed up outside," said Lo. He and his family escaped injury, but their food stocks were carried off, their car was burned and the inside of the church was ransacked. Lo knows he was targeted because the Chinese minority is perceived as more affluent than most Indonesians. "This is a problem of the stomach. People...
...attends the mainstream Hillcrest Baptist Church, where he has taught Sunday school. He gives generously to the poor, including a family who recently asked the church for children's clothing. "What you see on the news and what you see in the church are totally different," says former Hillcrest pastor Max Parker. But Bowers has shown no sign of renouncing racist violence. He describes proponents of racial integration as heretics and said in a 1994 interview, "When a priest sees a heretic, he can do only one thing: he eliminates...
Chatting over vegetarian goodies in the Unitarian meeting room last week were a 25-year-old Mexican American with the radio handle "Bedlam," whose Los Angeles station, Radio Clandestino, broadcasts leftist Chicano fare; Rick Strawcutter, a Fundamentalist pastor from Adrian, Mich., who is battling the FCC in federal court for the right to air right-winger Bo Gritz and rail against income tax; two guys from Radio Free Bakersfield who play the homegrown punk-rock bands the commercial stations ignore; and a 19-year-old Milwaukee, Wis., waitress with pink-and-purple hair who reads from Winnie-the-Pooh...
Perhaps the most revealing accusations against them involve Loewen, the Canada-based funeral-home chain that sought the pastor's help to sell its burial services through convention churches. Prosecutors say Lyons persuaded Loewen to make contributions to several convention causes and then diverted the money into his own pocket. Lyons and Edwards also allegedly went to Loewen in 1995 after the company lost a bankrupting $500 million civil suit in Mississippi and said they could get the verdict reversed for $2 million. In January 1996 Loewen settled for $175 million. Lyons and Edwards then called to scold Loewen...
...much so that his lawyers plan a defense based on the separation of church and state, arguing that if the people of God will not rise against him over church business, why should the government? There are telltale silences, though. The Rev. Alvin Miller, Bethel's associate pastor, refuses to share the Bethel pulpit with Lyons, glowering from the pews. "When you've done wrong, the Lord is going to forgive you," he says, "but if you get caught taking cookies out of the jar, you've still got to suffer the consequences...