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Church planting puts Sunday in St. Louis on a busy schedule. At St. Peter's Lutheran, a 35-member white congregation is overshadowed by a planted 150-member Vietnamese Lutheran congregation led by a Vietnamese pastor. Mount Olive Lutheran Church has a white Lutheran service at 10:30 a.m., an African-American Baptist congregation at 12:15 p.m. and an Eritrean Coptic Orthodox congregation at 2 p.m. And Kingshighway Baptist, besides its white and Latino congregations, is host to a special church for street people and unaffiliated youth that meets Thursday nights...
...task force included Rev. Thomas B. Chittick, president of United Ministry and minister of University Lutheran Church; Rev. Richard N. Chrisman, associate minister of Old South Church in Boston, and Mikelson, who is also pastor of First Church in Cambridge...
Niebuhr narrowed his focus to religious philosophy and decided to enter Union Seminary in New York City after his graduation from the College. After several years as the pastor of a small church in Cornwall, Conn., Niebuhr says he "felt the pull to come back and enter a Ph.D. program." He received his doctorate in theology from Yale...
...person who needs to be jailed is the dead children's grandfather and family pastor, Charles Nixon, for filling the minds of his trusting parishioners with rubbish and for distorting Scripture. Nowhere does the Bible say that sick children should be denied proper medical treatment or that it's "God's will" for children to die. "Freedom of religion" doesn't mean condoning murder. How many more children must die before the Faith Tabernacle Congregation is shut down and the pastor defrocked? (The Rev.) SALLY L. CARPENTER Seelyville...
...June 21, 1995. The Nixons, members of a tiny sect called the Faith Tabernacle Congregation, had refused to call a doctor on both occasions, convinced that all disease comes from the devil and that only God can cure illness. Charles Nixon, the dead children's grandfather and the pastor of Altoona's 140-member Faith Tabernacle congregation, clarified the sect's tenet: "We do not believe in 'faith healing.' We believe in 'divine healing' through Jesus Christ...