Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrow, 110-yd. corridor of no man's land between East and West Berlin. Countless Adolf Hitler squares or streets in German cities and towns have been renamed, often in honor of such heroes of the plots to overthrow him as Klaus von Stauffenberg, Julius Leber and Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Adolf, once a popular name, is seldom bestowed on German children today. About the only lasting memento is the 1,800 miles of modern autobahnen Hitler built, but even these highways have been broadened, resurfaced and extended beyond recognition...
...voice is impassioned, resonant, "hooting" occasionally in the honored tradition of black preaching. Now and again the shouts of the preacher roll from behind the doors of Varick Memorial Church and out onto the quiet streets of Brooklyn's black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Pastor Calvin B. Marshall, stentorian proponent of black Christian radicalism, is reminding his parishioners that Christianity has a proper place in the black revolution...
...Joseph H. Jackson would most emphatically disagree with Marshall's conviction that the Gospel prescribes revolution. Jackson, pastor of the big Olivet Baptist Church on Chicage's South Side and perennial president of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc. (he claims 6,000,000 members), is in his mid-60s. But there is more than a generation gap between him and Calvin Marshall. Jackson bitterly opposed Martin Luther King's civil-disobedience campaign, and has so vigorously quashed liberal opposition within his denomination that half a million members (including King) left in 1961 to form the Progressive...
...with "no constituency. The silent majority is very silent." His own position, Williams feels, is within the black mainstream, trying to achieve social change while still trying to cooperate with the white community. Williams, in his 50s, is acting academic dean of Morehouse College in Atlanta, sole pastor of the 650-member Friendship Baptist Church, and chairman of Atlanta's Human Relations Commission...
...most black churchmen, as to Samuel Williams, the future is an open and agonizing question. Some, like Joseph Jackson, find their answers by retreating to solutions of the past. Others try different paths. Pastor Albert B. Cleage Jr. of Detroit's Shrine of the Black Madonna, who preaches that Jesus was literally black, has announced that he is founding a "Black Christian Nationalist Movement" that will have its first "national convention" in Detroit this week. Cleage, who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the National Council of Churches last December, also expects to attract black Jews,* sunni Muslims...