Word: pastors
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Young, who speaks in the fluting accents of Southern civility, has always had a quiet dignity in his dealings with whites. Even as a young pastor in the 1950s in Thomasville, Ga., he jolted that little community by going to the front doors of white townspeople, not to the side or back entries. He is used to having gates open for him. He grew up in New Orleans, the son of a prosperous light-skinned dentist who liked to stress the family's "Indian blood." When he played with white boys, it was because he owned the ball...
...split by culture, are black or white. But Cathedral of His Glory, a young church whose membership is 30% black and 70% white, is an exception. Maintaining the mixture requires leadership from the top and constant effort to involve blacks. "We have to explain we are prejudiced," says Pastor C. Paul Willis. "We are not color- blind. But it's not a prejudice of hate...
...deliver what he called a "major, major" appeal for calm. Said he: "I oppose all bigotry against anyone, anywhere. I abhor it. I denounce it, and I'll do anything -- anything right and anything effective -- to prevent it." Speaking for many blacks and whites, the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem's % Abyssinian Baptist Church, welcomed Dinkins' appeal but noted that it "should have been delivered months...
...purpose was not to argue about "dogma and doctrine," said A.M.E. pastor Cecil Murray, but to "ask what we can do jointly to help take our community back from drugs and crime." Such meetings, says Khallid Abdul Muhammad, special assistant to Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, "put us into a position where black people are now turning to us for leadership...
Washington seems prepared to accept the Sandinistas in the role of loyal opposition. "There is space in a democratic Nicaragua for the expression of all political points of view," said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Robert Pastor, Jimmy Carter's chief Latin American adviser, suggests that Bush go further, for example by inviting Sandinista ministers to Washington along with the new government to work out the terms of U.S. aid. "The Sandinistas should be given as many incentives as possible for cooperation," he says...