Word: presbyterianism
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...father is a Presbyterian minister. I haven’t been to church in four years, initially because I found the practice constricting, now mostly because I’ve grown fond of sleeping in on Sundays. The result of all this was that my entrance into college last year also meant initiation into my father’s unofficial religious-book-of-the-month club...
...parents John and Antonia were Presbyterian missionaries who reared him in the Philippines...
None of the violence feared by abortion clinics across the country materialized as the state of Florida put Paul Hill to death Wednesday, but the former Presbyterian minister, convicted of the shotgun murders of an abortion-clinic doctor and his escort in Pensacola, Fla., in 1994, may still prove dangerous even as he fades from the headlines. Hill?s legacy, written in prison as he awaited death: A how-to manual for people looking to follow in his violent footsteps...
Newman, who was white, was born and raised in upstate New York and educated at an all-white college in Tennessee, Newman became a Presbyterian minister in Syracuse, N.Y. That was where he met Martin Luther King Jr., and shortly afterward decided to devote his life to working for liberty and equality for black people...
...Mimi now is Marion Fahnestock, mother of two, grandmother of four, and a church lady with the tony Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Actually, many of Kennedy's girls have done well: wives, mothers, grandmothers, authors, painters, philanthropists, social workers, and there is even one who became a noted Hollywood impresario...