Word: presbyterianism
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...issues that the Republican Party is not interested in,” he said. “We are committed to poverty reduction and urban issues.” Reverend Hamilton followed Bush’s speech with a discussion about his experiences as a pastor at the Roxbury Presbyterian Church and, like Bush, emphasized the importance of engaging the poor and building community relationships. Hamilton praised the bipartisan nature of last night’s event and highlighted the need to work together across political and racial lines against poverty. “The call of the poor...
Home is a pendant to Gilead, or maybe a reverse-angle instant replay of it: both books are set in the 1950s in the small town of Gilead, Iowa, and are concerned with many of the same characters and events. Robert Boughton, an elderly Presbyterian minister, is dying. A widower and father of eight, Boughton's powers are fading, though he is still full of a shaky heartiness that causes him to end most of his sentences with an exclamation point. His daughter Glory, unmarried in her late 30s, has come home to take care of him, partly because...
...Rwandan health-care volunteers will begin making home visits in September. They also point to some working projects whose real-world performance exposes both the strengths and weaknesses of Warren's theory. In early 2006, Grant Bornzin, a Saddleback member, was in a PEACE group directed to a Presbyterian church in the village of Remera, where elders spoke of needing milk for children. The team went back to the U.S., and Bornzin admits that "the idea festered" for two years, until a team member returned to Africa and e-mailed that "they really need [a] livestock program." So Bornzin raised...
...Dwight Eisenhower learned soon after he took office. Ike, though personally devout, wasn't much of a churchgoer, but he didn't think people would want a President who just played golf on Sundays. So he became the first President to be baptized in office and joined National Presbyterian. The minister had promised there would be no publicity, but as Eisenhower wrote angrily in his diary, "we were scarcely home before the fact was being publicized, by the pastor, to the hilt...
...more to Lebanon than the "cursed land" that you depict. There are signs of hope residing in two universities that provide an American-style education: the Lebanese American University (LAU) and the American University of Beirut (AUB). LAU can trace its roots back to 1835, when a group of Presbyterian adventurers decided to make a difference in the world by establishing a school for women in the Ottoman Empire. Since then, LAU has been educating youth in the Middle East. Despite the trials of providing a first-rate education during times of unrest, LAU continues to offer classes - and students...