Word: rev
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...police operation. It involves more than a dozen agencies, including the U.S. Attorney, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Suffolk County District Attorney as well as the Ten Point Coalition, a network of 43 black churches in the city. Says the Rev. Eugene Rivers, co-founder of the Ten Point Coalition: "The streets are much safer. The collaboration between the black churches and the police has produced results unseen in any other city." The two groups are now quietly working together to clear up scores of unsolved homicides...
...victims, while politicians are using the incident to push their pet social agendas, from tougher police enforcement to more funding for youth programs. Even ministers have found themselves in the dustup, grappling for gospel truths to soothe confused, outraged flocks. On the Sunday morning following the arrests, the Rev. Denzil Green, the 69-year-old white pastor of Flint's Galileeon Baptist Church, declared to his predominantly black congregation, "The name of the game is sin, not skin...
...little more than a week after announcing that Memorial Church would be available to same-sex couples wishing to hold commitment ceremonies, Pusey Minister for Memorial Church Rev. Peter J. Gomes said he believes it is "too early really to tell" what the decision will mean at Harvard and beyond...
Slayton said that although he and partner Phillip Hernandez, also an HMS instructor, were turned away by Gomes in 1993 and ultimately were blessed by Rev. G. Steward Barns in nearby Christ Church, he and Hernandez had remained involved in seeking a policy for Memorial Church...
...robe got Joseph in trouble with his 11 brothers, and now a robe has got the Rev. Robert Schuller in hot water with his fellowman. A United Airlines flight attendant claims the televangelist assaulted him after arguments about where Schuller could hang his robe. Schuller denies all, saying, "I have not broken any of the Ten Commandments...