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...contract to renovate its sanctuary and build a new community house, it spent months trying to find a contractor willing to cooperate. Even then, difficulties were encountered-such as pipes filled with concrete. Was this a deliberate attempt to frustrate integration? "You can draw your own conclusions," answers the pastor...
...This Fellow. The blunt modern quality of the translation has delighted many Catholics but shocked others, and the correspondence columns of diocesan newspapers have recently been filled with letters about the version. "I haven't met anybody who has liked it," says Msgr. Charles Finn, pastor of Boston's Holy Name Church, and Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno complains that the translation reduces "language to its lowest common denominator of intelligibility." Some critics saw an implied denial of Christ's divinity in the Confraternity phrasing of Matthew 28:6: the two women at Jesus' tomb...
...post-graduation summer spent with a clergyman and his family in California showed him that "a minister lives a life of service," prompted him to enroll in Princeton Theological Seminary. Now the man called John Peter Marshall, 25, has been ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and appointed assistant pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Hartford, Conn. Mindful that his father's divine call came on a misty Scottish moor, young Marshall is humble about his own future. "In the ministry you go where God leads you," he says. "It's a real adventure...
...good a man was in his secular life is often an accurate guide to how good he will be as a pastor. "If he's a successful businessman, he's likely to do pretty well in the ministry," says Methodist Minister Charles Merrill Smith, author of the recent How to Become a Bishop Without Being Religious. "If he's a punk businessman, he's likely to be a pretty punk minister...
Billy's first stop was Dothan (pop. 36,753), a southern Alabama black belt farming center where his brother-in-law is pastor of a Presbyterian church. From there he would move on to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, mostly Negro Tuskegee Institute, and Auburn University. Cancelling a vacation and a European tour, Billy will conduct a ten-day crusade in Montgomery in June. During October, he will crusade in Waco and Houston. Striving to accept speaking engagements in parts of the South where he has seldom before preached, he has juggled his schedule...