Word: pastorate
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...head on: "I don't want a progressive evangelical movement any more than I want the conservative one we have right now," she declared. It does not constitute hostility to religion, she suggests, to want to keep it at a distance from political activity. "I don't want my pastor telling politicians what to do," she says, "or anyone else's pastor doing that...
...Jonathan H. Chute ’82, a pastor and a former member of the Philips Brooks House Association, says these protests showed a broader concern with South Africa at the time...
...come to learn painfully the price of celebrity. He could talk to them about their kids, their marriages, their doubts and questions, and the Presidents knew they wouldn't read about it in the Washington Post the next day. Churches can be highly political places; Graham was the pastor who made house calls...
...Protestants, the local Catholic clergy had also noted that these rival churches lured believers not just with promises of rewards more immediate than a place in heaven, but also by offering services that are more joyful, happier, friendlier and more down-to-earth. By comparison with the Protestants' approachable pastor next door, the rock and roll liturgy and the 24-hour service, the Catholic Church could look cold and distant...
...said Pastor James Posey of the burned Morningstar Missionary Baptist Church in Boligee, it was most likely the usual suspect who is ultimately to blame. "Drinking," he said, "is fertile ground for the devil to work in." Citing an old expression in the black community, he added, "Don't give the devil a ride or he'll want to drive...