Word: pastoring
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...bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killed four little girls and galvanized the civil rights movement. If not for pastor John Cross Jr., who dug through rubble to discover the victims after hearing the explosion, it could easily have sparked further immediate violence. Cross, who had made his church a center for the movement, calmed angry protesters and officiated before 8,000 at a funeral for three of the girls, during which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the eulogy. Cross was forever haunted, saying recently that "hardly a day passes I don't think about...
...think he's been flying under the radar a little bit." he says." A CBS poll of white evangelicals in October showed that 57% said that they didn't know enough about him to answer a question of whether he had strong religious beliefs - and he's a former pastor. So by going on Copeland's show he can reach this huge audience, hundreds of thousands of people at least. But many evangelicals are uncomfortable with Prosperity theology, and they may be put off by seeing him on this particular show. And the real risk is with non-Evangelicals. This...
...pastor, Graham was closest to Lyndon Johnson, who called him to the White House more than 20 times and relied on him heavily for pastoral comfort. During one visit to the Johnson ranch, he asked Graham to preach at his funeral and more or less told him what he wanted to say. Later, when LBJ was dying, he reminded his family where he wanted to be buried and pointed out the spot near his burial site where he wanted Graham to stand and give the final blessing...
...Rockies wanted to discuss the issue in the midst of the most important games of their lives, but George McHendry, the pastor at United Church of Christ in northern Denver who attended some 50 Rockies games this year, thinks the team is increasingly sensitive to its reputation. In 2005 and 2006, the Rockies had a "Christian Family Day" at Coors Field. This season the Rockies renamed the promotion "Faith Day," though there weren't many rabbis or imams at the park. "To do that to appease other religions is hypocritical to say the least," says McHendry, who helped organize...
...nomination in 1988, he went out of his way to downplay his identity as a religious leader, emphasizing instead his television network and other business ventures. Nearly 20 years later, it is impossible to listen to Mike Huckabee without picking up on his background of 15 years as a pastor. Huckabee is fond of saying that he's a "conservative - I'm just not angry about it." His mood is usually that of a perpetually cheery youth pastor who just might grab a guitar and rock out with the praise band if the spirit hits him. (Huckabee does in fact...