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JOHN W. OLIVER Assistant Pastor...
Barefoot Hermit. Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Alabama, he was brought up in Chicago, where his father was pastor of the True Light Baptist Church. The future king began appropriately as "the Prince of the Ivories," leading the high school dance band...
...thousands" in a demonstration of "peaceful good will." Far from resisting, city officials fell all over themselves in their hurry to help out. Police all but urged upon King a permit to parade the five blocks to the county courthouse from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where King was pastor when he first made a national name for himself as leader of a bus boycott (TIME cover...
...Personal Pronoun. "The most important one piece of equipment the aspiring clergyman will acquire," says Smith, "is a wife. She must not be beautiful, stylish or sexy. The best approach to the problem of clerical mate selection is to imagine that you are planning to employ an assistant pastor...
Glory & Dedication. At 46, Iconoclast Smith has climbed up the "professional progress chart" he offers in his book just as fast as the mythical Conformist Goodfellow. The pastor of the 2,200-member Wesley Methodist Church in Bloomington, Ill., Smith is a trustee of Illinois Wesleyan University, has a rich cherry-red rug in his office, drives a red Dodge convertible and aspires to own a Jaguar sedan. A few times a year he takes his blonde wife Betty, whom he married for "irrelevant reasons," to New York for a round of Broadway shows and dinner at Lu-chow...