Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public services. The Vermont Public Interest Research Group once found that the state's ski industry was profitable mostly for outsiders who have come to exploit it. The Rev. Brendan Whitaker has denounced the industry from the pulpit of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Brandon, Vt. Says the pastor...
...acre former dude ranch outside Tucson became Maranatha House two years ago, and now houses 40 young evangelists and draws 600 people to weekly services. At Virginia Beach, Va., under-25s predominate in the congregation of 1,200 at robust Rock Church; Pentecostalist Pastor John Gimenez is a former heroin addict from Spanish Harlem with a sixth-grade education...
...contributions to the guerrillas that provoked the angriest criticism of the council during the past few years and that apologists defended at the Geneva meeting. The discussion centered on a 13-page report on strategies for social justice prepared by a W.C.C. study group headed by Memphis Methodist Pastor James Lawson. The report saw three "options" open to contemporary Christians: 1) Nonviolent action as the only possibility consistent with obedience to Jesus Christ; 2) Accepting the necessity of violent resistance as a Christian duty in extreme circumstances, but applying to it criteria similar to those governing a "just...
...nonviolent tactics too often go unnoticed or unaided. Most violence in the world, he charged, is "structural"-the violence of "racism, militarism, hunger, exploitation of people, economic inequity, war, disease, and poverty." By contrast, "revolutionary violence is a tiny percentage-and a response to systematic violence." Indeed, said Swiss Pastor Clement Barbey, assistant to Potter, revolutionary violence has been the accepted answer to such oppression. "Are the Africans in Mozambique who fight the Portuguese for their freedom any different from our Swiss ancestors who took up arms for their freedom from Austrian oppressors in 1291?" he asked...
Within two days, Wesley was lapsing into periods of unconsciousness. The Rev. Gary Nash, the Parkers' pastor, came to pray, but Wesley spoke only a few words. When Alice Parker decided to buy some fresh insulin, her husband prevented her. Wesley died, and was buried last week with only an undertaker and a gravedigger looking on. His family, believing that he will be resurrected from the grave, stayed home. "I think God is letting it go this far so he can receive the most glory from this when Wesley comes back," Lawrence Parker explained. Pastor Nash, however, was shaken...