Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood Boulevard and talked about Jesus nonstop," he recalls. "When she finally finished, her friends congratulated her on a 'terrific witness.' It was the easiest interview I ever had." L.A. Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand was covering a religious service at Imperial Beach when he declined the pastor's invitation to declare his own religious beliefs. "He generously let me sit in the back clutching my notebook," says Hillenbrand, "while the congregation called the Holy Spirit down on me to guide my thoughts and my fingers as I wrote...
...Nixons, the contrast will be all the bleaker after the noise and gaiety of the wedding. Tricia and Eddie will exchange vows in a ten-minute service presided over by the Rev. Edward Gardiner Latch, a Methodist who is the Nixons' old family pastor and chaplain of the House of Representatives. While hardly venturesome as the new improvisational weddings go?Kahlil Gibran will not be recited?the service will be mildly ecumenical. There will be Episcopal (Ed is an Episcopalian) as well as Methodist and Catholic prayers...
...small, then unaccredited school run by his Lutheran denomination, the Evangelical Synod of North America, now part of the United Church of Christ. "I desired relevance rather than scholarship," he recalled and, rather than earn a doctorate, he plunged into an industrial parish in Detroit. His 13 years as pastor there honed his moral passion. After visiting a sick, unemployed Ford worker in 1927, he wrote bitterly: "What a civilization this is! Naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics suddenly become arbiters over the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousands...
Golden Age. In 1928, the tall, balding pastor began a 32-year teaching career at Union Theological Seminary in New York; his presence helped make that period Union's golden age. In 1930, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress on the Socialist ticket; a year later, he married one of his students, a bright, elegant Briton.* They had two children, a son and a daughter...
Threatened by the effect the exposure of the FBI information would have had upon his career, the Martin Luther King of Montgomery, the 26-year-old pastor of Dexter, would unquestionably have kept his compromise with the system. He would have opted for protecting his name and that of his family in the eyes of the black puritans of his congregation and his class. But in the years that had passed, he had collected more than merely a Nobel and nine arrests. He had acquired a sense of responsibility to a greater constituency, one unbounded by color, class, or nationality...