Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the auspices of the nationwide Council for Clinical Training. Episcopalian Bruder was appointed to St. Elizabeths by the Washington Federation of Churches as what he considers the first real minister to the mentally ill in the U.S. During 3½ years as an Anglican parish minister in Canada. Pastor Bruder felt that he was failing some members of his flock through lack of understanding. Then he heard of the Council for Clinical Training, founded in 1925 by a Congregationalist minister named Anton T. Boisen, who had once been a mental patient himself. Anglican Bruder took one of the council...
There is the impression that the "trial" was not really a trial at all, but an attempt on the part of the "committee" to "reconcile its views with Pastor Crist's." This is false. It was a trial! The blase assumption that here was a bunch of nice guys trying desperately to win over a prodigal son makes me sick...
Dandruff & Sermons. Dear Charles is a collection of 26 fictional letters from Astute, a frustrated seminary professor, to the Rev. Charles Prince, an ambitious young pastor, on how to succeed in the ministry. Like Lord Chesterfield, Professor Astute neglects few facets of the successful man. "I want to begin with your appearance," he says. From dieting to dandruff, he recites his litany. "Your underwear should also be chosen with care . . . You will be stopping at hotels with some of your more prominent men . . . While I am on this subject, a word should be said about the care of teeth...
...pastor's goal should be to outdo previous pastors. Since "there is no difference between selling insurance and selling religion," there is no excuse for not increasing the church's rolls, even if it means luring people from other denominations ("Can you imagine the representatives of General Motors suffering any qualms over taking customers away from Studebaker?"). In asking for money ("this is primarily what you are concerned with"), the wise pastor will remind his people that "if you trust the Lord and put in ten dollars, you will get twenty in return...
...Pastor Prince is such an apt pupil that he is called to become pastor of the large, powerful First Church in Mammonville -"an honor that angels would covet." But almost before he can turn his charm on the new congregation, he is inconsiderately called to the "bright golden shore...