Word: pastorals
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...Guthries must wonder, Have they too been selected for their fate? In the 1600s, such a couple might have seen their plight as evidence that they had sinned or were passed over for salvation. But American Protestants have largely abandoned such harsh Calvinism. At Hope's memorial, the Guthries' pastor, Charles McGowan, recalled Jesus' encounter with the blind man. When asked, "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replies, "It was not this man...nor his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him," and Jesus heals...
...Much of the television coverage of the event and its aftermath verged on the morbidly obscene. The father's excruciating press conference; the pastor's nauseating one; the obligatory mindless interviews with friends and neighbors. Americans have so internalized the grammar and vocabulary of modern media that when something happens to them that's newsworthy, even if it's a tragedy beyond one's ken, the first thing they do is call a press conference...
...scandal broke, and years of accumulated suspicions burst forth--about everything from Jackson's alleged serial philandering to whether his family was unfairly profiting from his deals with corporations. To many blacks, it appeared that his time was running out. "What's his future?" asks Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor of Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church. "That's a no-brainer. Jesse's through. On a scale of 1 to 10, his credibility is about...
...leave it, but REV. LEON SULLIVAN was a towering, 2-m exception. Though he grew up in West Virginia, died in Arizona and is best-known globally for his antiapartheid crusading and ties to Martin Luther King Jr., it was in 1960s Philadelphia that the proud but pragmatic pastor of Zion Baptist Church preached, perfected and first put into action his message that "black power without green power is no power." In North Philly, that meant pooling black parishioners' greenbacks to build grocery stores and job training centers after race riots left shops and hopes in ruins. When he became...
DIED. THE REV. LEON SULLIVAN, 78, forceful civil rights leader and Baptist pastor credited with helping end apartheid in South Africa; of leukemia; in Scottsdale, Ariz. In 1977, after becoming the first black director on the General Motors board, he framed the Sullivan Principles, a code for U.S. companies operating in South Africa outlining how they could desegregate workplaces and promote fair treatment of black employees. At age 10, Sullivan was booted from a Charleston, W.Va., drugstore counter while drinking a soda, an incident that inspired him as an adult to organize boycotts of racist companies. In 1964, he founded...