Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rival mission board, the Mission Society for United Methodists, will open for business in Atlanta with $150,000 donated by large churches, and the hint of much more to come. "We can no longer support the direction in which the board has gone," says Ira Gallaway, a Peoria, Ill., pastor who is secretary of the new mission society...
...Thomas Jr., the pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Tulsa and the new agency's chairman, gives a key reason for the widening dismay: the election last October of Peggy Billings, 55, to run the mission board's overseas division. She is, Thomas declares, "the most radical person" on the staff...
Harry S Truman liked a good scrap, but in 1951 he quickly backed down when American Protestants erupted in fury against his plan to extend diplomatic recognition to the Vatican. Even the President's own Baptist pastor in Washington denounced the idea from the pulpit. So abashed was Truman that he eliminated the post of the President's "personal representative" to the Holy...
...Christ Church), which mainly serves the German diplomatic and business community. A group of Lutherans had approached John Paul when he visited a nearby Catholic parish in 1982 and asked, "Won't you come and visit our church too?" The Pope later raised the subject with the local pastor, Christoph Meyer...
Critics claim that Hunthausen's pastoral solicitude runs only in a leftward direction. One witness, Father Paul Auer, was forced into retirement at age 59 and has petitioned Rome for reinstatement. "The Archbishop said I was unfit to be a pastor in this post-Vatican II age," he told TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane. He said he was upset by "liberal theologians who come here with the idea of remaking the church, always in the spirit of Vatican II," and he railed against such practices as entertainment in church, which in his view turns the Mass into "just a meal...