Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being organized in Kansas City, Mo. Serving a largely Negro, downtown section of some 15,000 people, the unique ecumenical church, to be called St. Mark's, will be financed by the four participating denominations-Catholic, United Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal and the United Church of Christ. Pastor of the congregation will probably be the Rev. Kenneth Waterman, a Presbyterian; his assistants will be ministers of the other three faiths...
...like being described as non-Protestant"). For her part, she hated the way Protestants frequently referred to her as a "Roman Catholic" with a strong emphasis on the Roman. For the benefit of Bettie Phillips, Mary explained why the chief priest of a parish is called the pastor; Bettie in turn explained to the Catholics how Presbyterians use the terms vestry and synod and why their principal statement of faith is called the Westminster Confession...
...with two other Van Gogh works, by a sharp-eyed Pennsylvania clergyman named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week at Christie's in London, it was sold at auction to an anonymous collector for $441,000-the highest price ever paid for a Van Gogh. The proceeds will go to Pastor Pitcairn's Swedenborgian Lord's New Church in Bryn Athyn...
...company owes much of its unique character-as well as its profits-to Kresge's farm-bred frugality and his stern Methodist morality. He once donated $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, said that "I never gave a dime to any church the pastor of which uses tobacco." Kresge men and women, mindful of old S. S. dictums, still eat separately in company cafeterias, habitually snap off lights when leaving washrooms-although managers complain that switches are wearing out. Yet when President Cunningham in 1961 urged that the chain fight discounters by opening its own discount "K-Marts...
Conservative Mood. Thompson's victory was an upset, and after the election delegates commented that "he licked the machine." The machine in this case was the church's 23-man nominating committee which issued a "unanimous recommendation" in favor of the Rev. John William Meister, pastor of Fort Wayne's First Presbyterian Church, who agrees with Blake's views on clerical activism. Much to the committee's dis may, the delegates gave Thompson, who was nominated from the floor, 502 votes to 302 for Meister and 15 for the Rev. Hugh Miller, a New Jersey...