Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Copeland asks himself rhetorically, "Well, Brother Copeland, are you tithing to get?" His answer: "Yes, yes, yes! A thousand times yes! I want to get healed, I want to get well, I want to get money, I want to get prosperous!" Other advocates include Frederick Price, 54, the black pastor of a huge Los Angeles church, and Robert Tilton, 39, of the Dallas-based Success-N-Life cable network...
Shortly before her daughter's confirmation last May, Mary Ann Sorrentino, executive director of Rhode Island Planned Parenthood, was told by her pastor not to participate. The reason: she had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. When Sorrentino, 42, questioned the action, she was reminded that two Planned Parenthood clinics performed abortions in the state and that canon law decrees automatic excommunication for receiving an abortion or helping another to receive one. News of the action came out only last week when a local cable-television program aired a segment on abortion. During the show, Sorrentino heard a priest...
...Heilman, Father Thomas Haggerty, the pastor of St. Michael's, Bob Walsh, Joe Montalto--community leaders who work in different ways for Sunset Park --all agree that the center is the social engine of the neighborhood. They remember that in 1978, Sunset Park, though designated a poverty area in the 1960s, had not yet reached the point of deterioration of the South Bronx and the now destitute Bushwick section of Brooklyn. There was still a chance to pull the neighborhood back from disintegration. The center is credited for the beginnings of recovery. Mary Paul and Geraldine do not deny this...
...some Sanctuary activists, morality can override politics. Gary Cook, associate pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Massillon, Ohio, says, "We're a very conservative group of folks politically. But once we encountered the refugees face to face, we couldn't justify not taking them in." Notes the Rev. William Sloane Coffin of Riverside Church in New York City: "We don't apologize for the political aspect. God is concerned not just with your sins and my sins, but with the sins of the nation...
Eighty miles to the north, at a military hospital, an old pastor counsels a corporal. The clergyman announces that Germany must throw itself on the mercy of the victorious Allies. "Everything went black before my eyes," Adolf Hitler is to remember. "That night I resolved that, if I recovered my sight, I would enter politics...