Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oakland meeting, heavily attended by students and faculty members from the University of California, was probably the most enthusiastic of all. In the invocation Dr. Fred Stripp, a speech teacher who is acting pastor of the South Berkeley Community Church, pronounced a prayer that indicated inside information: "We believe Adlai Stevenson to be Thy choice for President of the United States...
...extraordinary fracas seen in any U.S. church for a long time. In 1949 Long Island's Bishop James P. De Wolfe fired William Melish's father, John Howard Melish, as rector of Trinity, because he would not curb the left-wing activities of his son and assistant pastor. But the vestry and congregation accepted the younger Melish to stay on as acting pastor. By last week, however, a majority of the vestry (now mostly composed of new members) had changed its stand and decided to fire Melish...
GEORGE TRUMAN CARL PASTOR...
...plot is no heavy-weight. Country pastor's doctor says he has a year to live; country pastor has beautiful daughter who needs piano lessons in London; country pastor has no money, but takes brave anti-orthodox stand which costs him higher-paid job; wife steals needed money, he returns it; in grip of death, country pastor finds new meaning in life...
...some $8 billion for the construction of 105,000 new church buildings. This will mean, said Dr. Wickizer, that for every new recruit to the ministry today there will have to be four in the near future. U.S. Protestants will also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion of older citizens and working wives. But this should not mean a tamer type of preaching, he warned: "It worries me that so many of our younger ministers feel that they must preach in a quiet and solemn voice with never a gesture, never a smile...