Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview yesterday afternoon. Vellucci said he had decided not to take any action against the church. "If Pastor Reisz is going to open his doors to the homeless, then I'm going to have to be on his side. There were no by-laws when God created the world, no Cambridge or Harvard University," said the mayor...
...church committee led by Pastor Frederick Reisz moved later that evening to go ahead with the project, agreeing to lease the basement to Guernsey, and thereby relieving the church of any legal responsibility...
...opening up the shelter with full knowledge that at this time we do not have city permits," said Pastor Reisz...
...Communist regime, lay dying. Solidarity leaders had begun to feel the pull of more militant supporters, especially after a March 1981 clash with police in Bydgoszcz. Even rank-and-file Communists had started to call for democratic changes in the party organization. By striking down Solidarity's pastor and main international patron, the Kremlin could, in one blow, have demoralized Polish society and shifted the shaky balance into the government's favor. Explains a Vatican official: "It was the same kind of drastic action that the Soviets took when they invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. They...
...longer say 'nigger toes,' the old name for the chocolate-covered creams." Unlike some writers who have moved up, Mason does not bury her past in ironic disdain. A woman who identifies a long, low dog as a "datsun" gets the same neighborly attention as a pastor's wife who plays electronic games rather than attend one more workshop like Christian "marriage enhancement." In true short-story tradition, the insights and epiphanies are spring-loaded. A rock group called the B-52s sounds like "a crazed parent abusing a child, thrashing it senseless." A wife realizes that...