Word: pastors
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Clergymen of the area tend to blame such doings on religious apathy. "Church customs have mostly become hardened forms of hollow traditions," says Pastor Wolfgang Baader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. "He who does not believe in God must fear the Devil." But though authorities shake their heads at witch talk, they shrug their shoulders over what to do about it and point to the case of Farmer Bading of Lüneberg Heath. Hannes Bading called in a witch doctor to fix up his ailing stock, his failing crops, his drying well. The Hexenmeister sold him some "letters from...
First-ballot choice of the nominating committee for new president of the convention was spectacled, Nebraska-born Winfield Edson, 45, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Long Beach, Calif. A low 80s golfer, camera fan and chinchilla breeder on the side, Winfield Edson has boosted his church's membership from 1,500 to 3,724 since 1939, has averaged a speech a day to do it. Not content with expanding, his church has pushed members out to form ten new churches in the Long Beach area...
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True to the good Baptist tradition of unpredictability, they elected a dark-horse candidate as president of the convention for 1954. Dr. James Wilson Storer, 67, onetime Oregon cowboy, author of five books, and pastor of the First Baptist Church of Tulsa since 1931, was as flabbergasted at his election as were many of the messengers. "I didn't know a thing about it," he said. "I couldn't have been more surprised, and all I can say is that I'll do the very best...
...serve out his sentence. Neighbors in Northlake, including Chief Heck, pledged their homes to raise Raboski's $15,000 bail, drafted a clemency appeal to California's Governor Earl Warren. "We plan to do everything we can to stand back of him," said the Rev. Milan Swasko, pastor of the local Lutheran church. "This community can't afford to lose...