Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recourse but to plow into my house." In 1953 Griggs filed suit against the airport. In 1956 he sold his house and five acres to the St. Philip's Episcopal Church (whose congregation has since been bothered only a few times on Sunday mornings; when that happens, says Pastor Donald Clawson, "we simply stop and say a little silent prayer for the pilot"). Griggs won his case, was awarded $12,690 in damages, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Allegheny County was not liable. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision reversed the Pennsylvania Court. Now Griggs will...
...When we were about twelve, Johnny and I belonged to a group called the Ohio Rangers," recalls the Rev. C. Edwin Houk, now a Presbyterian pastor in Glendale, Calif. "We had taken a vow never to use profanity. One evening the group started singing Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here. I continued with the phrase, 'What the hell do we care.' Well, I can tell you, it didn't sit well with Johnny. He came up to me, white-faced and righteous, and told me to stop. I think he was ready to knock my block...
News of the Next World. The Rev. Tjalling Bruinsma, 45, former pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Zaltbomel, is half way through the monumental task of translating the Coffin Texts into modern language. An expert in hieroglyphics, Bruinsma has spent nearly three years translating the spells, which were collected from coffins in Egypt and in the world's major museums by his teacher, the late Egyptologist Adriaan de Buck. They were published, as hieroglyphics, in seven volumes by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute...
...sooner had he agreed to discuss "The Radical Right-a Threat to Democracy" at West Los Angeles' Sinai Temple one evening last week than the Rev. Brooks R. Walker began receiving obscene and threatening telephone calls. Walker, pastor of the Emerson Unitarian Church, disregarded the callers. He joined Cinemactress Marsha Hunt and the Rev. John Simmons, a Lutheran minister, in a panel discussion about right-wing political extremists. "We've got to try to understand these people," Walker told the audience. "We must respect their right even if they don't always respect ours." Midway through...
MARTIN G. SCHROEDER Pastor Messiah Lutheran Church Grand Island...