Word: pastoring
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...about it anymore. A Chicago psychotherapist goes to church in search of calm and respite. "I had to listen to 100 different versions of how horrendous an event this was," he says. "I didn't want to hear any more pain, to have more emotions thrown at me. The pastor felt that he needed to talk about whether people are being too patriotic and too gung-ho. That's fine. But that was not what I went there...
...commented. Dilley’s dismay turned to relief when Rivera’s opinions and anecdotes revealed her to be a total psychopath. Added Rivera: “This guy I hooked up with never called me back, so I was like, ‘Look Pastor Thompson, you’re going to see me every Sunday whether you like...
First of all, are we in revival? Jim Cymbala, pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, described the Sunday following the attacks this way: "We put people in the lobby, the overflow areas, the choir risers. The lines were down the block." Clergy countrywide had similar experiences. Sixty percent of all Americans attended some kind of memorial, and Bible sales rose 27%. However, the new impulse isn't sticking with everyone. Gallup polls taken Sept. 21 and 22 suggested that weekend church and synagogue attendance rose only 6% (compared with, say, 20% after President Kennedy was shot...
...important as church attendance, says evangelical leader Chuck Colson, is that "people are asking all the right questions." Houston pastor Ed Young elaborates: "What do I know about God, who am I, where did I come from, why am I here, where am I going?" A second tier of issues has arisen around the question of war. Muslims and others have been doing furious research on the concept of jihad. Traditional antiwar denominations like Quakers and Church of the Brethren are challenging the more common Christian concept of the just war. Some mainline Protestants, Buddhists and other religious liberals have...
...lower-level meeting room—which is used by the Parish for a number of purposes, from a food panty to a place of worship for students—was selected last Wednesday after the Registrar explained Harvard’s predicament to St. Paul’s Pastor, Monsignor Dennis Sheehan...