Word: pastorals
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Immigrants reweave bits and pieces of native culture, and counterculture, into the New York fabric. On Manhattan's Second Avenue are the offices of the Ukrainian National Liberation Front. In Brighton Beach, the best seller at the Black Sea bookstore is a Russian translation of The kgb Today. The pastor of a church in Queens says he figured that one new congregant, a woman who constantly glanced over her shoulder, was deranged. "It turns out she is a Soviet refugee terrified of the secret police," says the minister...
...radio dial in the Southwest. Researchers in conservative Protestant seminaries analyze evangelistic strategies. Personal contacts are stressed. Says Catholic Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, N. Mex.: "They're out there ringing doorbells and going into people's homes. That's hard to beat." The Rev. Tony Arango, pastor of Florida's growing East Hialeah Baptist Church, whose membership is heavily Cuban, says, "Our witnessing is done by all our members. We believe in the aggressive approach...
...through many trying times and will see us through to the end." At one point, a gunman fired through a window to keep other reporters and photographers away. Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmermann, 45, of Cascade, Idaho, sent greetings to his wife, children and father. Zimmermann, who is a Lutheran pastor, evidently had not been told that his father, the Rev. Elmer Zimmermann, had died in St. Louis four days earlier while attending a prayer vigil...
...judge, who is a cum laude Princeton alumnus and former state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner and the road warrior for the cause. They succeeded in getting conservative presidents elected, and boards began tilting rightward...
...Katharine Ellerbrock tuned in a morning TV show and realized that she was listening to the recorded voice of her brother, Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmerman, talking to the Beirut control tower. She said her brother, who manages to be both a full-time TWA pilot and a Lutheran pastor with a ministry in the mountains of Idaho, was "strong, steady and stable" and "has got to be a comfort to the passengers." In Richmond, Mo., a small town northeast of Kansas City, friends and neighbors stayed up to follow the ordeal of Captain Testrake, who in his spare time raises...