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...other schools.The 24 half-course MDiv program requires demanding coursework, including a senior thesis, distribution requirements, and intensive language study. In addition, its students must complete 350-400 hours of field education, as well as courses like “Preaching and Worship,” “Pastoral Care and Counseling,” “Religious Education and Spiritual Development,” and “Community Organizing.”“What we meant was something more than the idea that Harvard turns out educated ministers,” says Rose...
...burned churches, pastors still don?t understand it. Says Walter Hawkins, pastor of Dancy First Baptist in in rural Bibb County, "They burned the building but they can?t burn the church because...
...Brussels, though, might be hard pushed to enforce the measure. And such a change, if it came at all, would take years to implement. The big players will not remain idle, because mergers add to their profits. "These energy companies are already big enough to be efficient," says Alfredo Pastor, professor of economics at the University of Navarre's International Graduate School of Business in Spain. "What each wants now is to control other companies." One reason: bulking up through acquisitions can strengthen a power firm's bargaining position when it comes to securing the supply...
...country but for a ceramic vessel of red wine on the dinner table - offered in communion. Because the dinner, it turns out, is no mere Bible study, 12-step meeting or other pendant to Sunday service at a Denver megachurch. It is the service. There is no pastor, choir or sermon - just six believers and Jesus among them, closer than their breath. Or so thinks Jeanine, who two years ago abandoned a large congregation for the burgeoning movement known in evangelical circles as "house churching," "home churching" or "simple church." The week she left, she says, "I cried every...
...middle-level politicians and businessmen, including current Representative Robert Jaworski, Jr. and former Representative Ding Tanjuatco, were in and out of the meeting, which ran well past 1 a.m. While one of Cojuangco's daughters kept a buffet table piled high with chicken sandwiches, macaroni salad, corn and cookies, Pastor Saycon, a businessman and longtime Arroyo critic, discussed a new government. As the others listened, Saycon spoke over the phone to a person he identified as an American official in Washington, assuring him that the post-coup regime would remain on good terms with the U.S. "You will still...