Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swaggart's secret life was anything near as florid as it appears to have been, it was almost inevitable that it would come to the notice of Gorman, the pastor of a humble church in a warehouse located only four miles away. Gorman had been reduced to this lowly estate because of the Assemblies, defrocking for adultery, which Swaggart had engineered. Before that, Gorman had been the toast of Pentecostalist New Orleans...
...Meeting the day after Swaggart's sermon, they judged his repentance genuine and prescribed a three- month suspension from preaching, except for commitments already made to preach abroad. As part of a two-year process of "rehabilitation," including supervision by clergy, Swaggart would have to step down as co-pastor of the Baton Rouge church for the three months. Left open was the question of Swaggart's TV shows...
...through Government action has waned, a function of straitened budgets and a kind of cultural recoil from the principles of Johnson's Great Society. The black middle class has grown and in many ways prospered, and yet the black underclass has hardened into a cruel permanence. Says Charles Stith, pastor of Boston's Union United Methodist Church and a highly regarded black activist: "Martin Luther King fought for our rights to ride in the front of the bus. But folks still can't afford to ride the front of the airplane. This isn't a civil rights issue...
...Reverend Mr. Gomes, good Pastor Peter...
...equivalent to the work of the devil." Even a rate of 3% or 4% is unacceptably high to Finance Minister Stoltenberg, whose resistance to foreign prodding has earned him the nickname "Ice Prince" among U.S. economic officials. The 59-year-old, white-haired Stoltenberg, the son of a Protestant pastor, is revered in West Germany for his fiscal rectitude, which enabled him to reduce the country's budget deficit by nearly a third, to $13.1 billion, in five years. Says a West German economist, speaking for the population at large: "Beneath everything, we are all Stoltenbergs...