Word: pastorate
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...Powell is handsome, lightskinned, a fluent speaker, a good showman. He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. After a year in theological seminary, he stepped into a ready-made job as assistant pastor of his father's Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose 14,000 members are the largest Protestant congregation in the world...
Preachers came, at least a score, but with few pleas for mercy. Instead, most denounced flogging, compared the Klan to "the despicable Gestapo." One stocky pastor described his own flogging to unconsciousness. Except for an orthodox Jew, who paid tribute to the Ku Klux Klan, the show took an altogether wrong turn...
...Baptist Church Sunday a story of football, character and religion....Coach Harlow's appearance will assume the form of an interview, in which Rev. Mr. Fowler will ask the Harvard mentor questions, the answers to which are intended to show the relationship of football with character and religion. The pastor will then preach on "The Spirit of Notre Dame." --From the Boston Globe...
...This is an unspeakable insult to the clergy of the U.S.," thundered Dr. Morrison. "Who would have imagined that an agency of the American Government would go so far as to tell preachers what to preach . . . [and] guarantee the right kind of preaching by presenting each pastor with a canned sermon and a text of Holy Scripture printed on the label...
...Nazi school near Pastor Martin Neimöller's old church, Ziemer heard a geography lesson for nine-year-olds. Teacher: "[The U.S. has] a low type of government, a democracy. What is a democracy?" Pupils: "... A government by rich Jews. ... A government that will be defeated by the Führer." > Excerpts from a favorite song of Berlin University students (tune: O Tannenbaum...