Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dress Rite. In Walhalla, S.C., 37 members of the Rider Mountain Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church went to court asking for the reinstatement of their pastor, the Rev. Haskell Lee, who had been unfrocked for wearing a necktie in the pulpit...
...Redbook quoting Theologians Liston Pope and Franklin Clark Fry, among others, as calling Peale's type of religion "very nearly blasphemous" and "a parody." As he read, Peale "felt something wince and shrivel inside of him." That night on the train, Peale wrote out his resignation as pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church. After Peale's minister father died at 85, his stepmother Mary said, "Your father left a message for you ... He said, 'Tell Norman his message is right . . . just put his trust in Jesus Christ and never quit.' " Peale handed his wife...
...Wheels. The "abiding" love and Scriptural wisdom of Pastor Moser (of the splinter Missionary Baptistic Church) and his co-signers are reflected by many a Southern minister.*Their use of Holy Writ to defend their position does not sit well with many ministers-even in the Deep South. But the fact remains that right now the segregationist clergymen are the ones who are doing the loudest talking. In Little Rock, segregationist clergymen are doing their best to embarrass their opponents by taking newspaper ads to ask why the opponents' own churches are not integrated, if integration is what they...
Said one young Methodist pastor in Mississippi last week: "There are plenty of us, of all denominations, working quietly and discreetly to promote racial tolerance and ease the way for the integration that eventually has to come. But publicity is the worst thing we could have. Christianity needs its martyrs. But it needs its underground...
...found him sitting in his car in front of Findlay Street Neighborhood House, a recreational center for slum children that he heads. When they told McCrackin to come along, he refused to budge. They lifted him out of his car and he refused to walk. So they carried gangling Pastor McCrackin to their own automobile, drove him to the Federal Building, carried him into the elevator (where he sat on the floor), and carried him first into the marshal's office, then into the tax commissioner's office. They carried him back to the marshal's office...