Word: pastorates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Merriam was asked to remove his personal belongings from the church-and even to refrain from attending Sunday services there. A substitute preacher-Dr. Paul Franklin Hudson, formerly of Indianapolis' Second Presbyterian Church, and something of a stormy petrel himself (TIME. Nov. 24)-was picked to be temporary pastor...
...March 1961, after a two-year search for a minister, Broadway Presbyterian's congregation voted to "call" (invite) Merriam as their next pastor. Despite misgivings about his fundamentalism, the presbytery approved the choice and almost immediately found reasons to regret it. Merriam brought his huge German shepherd Blitz into the pulpit at a children's service. He earned a brief notoriety by tape-recording a telephone conversation with a State Department official about the problems of an exile from Iran, then playing the tape-including the official's off-the-cuff criticisms of Iranian corruption...
...fight to the New York State Synod and to the General Assembly if need be. "I am shocked by the presbytery's action," he said. So, regardless of the merit of the charges, were other clergymen, who worried about the presbytery's behavior in removing a pastor over the objections of his parish. Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell, minister emeritus of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, called the exercise of power "disturbing to ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church at large...
Twice each week, armed guards escort Pastor William Lovell Hull of Jerusalem's nondenominational Zion Christian Mission into the maximum security cellblock of Israel's Ramla prison. As he enters, a sallow, thin-faced prisoner behind a thick glass partition snaps to his feet, bows and clicks his heels. Then the two men sit down, take up the earphones and microphones through which they communicate and open their Bibles. Pastor Hull then begins another session of trying to bring Adolf Eichmann back to the Christian faith he left...
...house on terms there for less than they paid for tenement rents. But some fundamentalist ministers claim that their young congregations include doctors, bankers and other professional men who have become dissatisfied with traditional Protestantism. "All the people have to be reached,'' says James Freeman, pastor of the Church of God. Mountain Assembly, in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood. "We have college people, high school people, and, as in all churches, the uneducated...