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Minister in Memorial Church is a new position replacing the old post of Preacher to the University. Both the change in the title and the two-year delay in appointing a minister resulted from an extensive reappraisal of the functions of Memorial Church...
...Stuyvesant neighborhood. Once in a while, the movie quiets its tone of social soap opera and pulls together a strong sequence: a gang fight, staged with the right kind of rushed clumsiness and dulled, all-directions violence, and a lacerating funeral sequence with a lightning-rod eulogy by a preacher (Ram John Holder...
...that sermons in suburban Washington's Fourth Presbyterian Church had a powerful impact on his decisions that winter. On the first Sunday of January 1973, McCord, a Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...
Identity Shield. Last winter, aware that dope was canceling out his life, Clapton submitted to an experimental form of acupuncture. A month later he was free of his addiction. Recalling the treatment he says, "The doctor, a middle-aged Scotswoman, and her husband, a preacher-they really cared. They, as much as anything, brought me through...
...since he took over the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000). Francis was chosen for the job by Schick Millionaire Patrick Frawley Jr., who bought the then-progressive paper at the urging of conservative Jesuit Gadfly Daniel Lyons to give it a more traditional tone. A onetime Methodist lay preacher who became a Catholic in 1945, Francis has socially liberal credentials as a longtime union supporter and early civil rights advocate...