Word: revs
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After years of dutifully ministering to his flock, the Rev. Thomas Marshfield, 41, begins fleecing the ewes. When his trysts with the church organist and other assorted supplicants are exposed, Marshfield is shipped West for a month's rest to a desert spa for troubled clergymen. The regimen is ecumenical. There is golf in the afternoon, poker at night and daiquiris whenever. Mornings are spent alone at an obligatory typewriter, where orgies of therapeutic confession are the order...
...purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many matrons can dance on the head of a pun? "More power to the peephole!" the Rev. Marshfield exults after describing a session of spying on his curate and his mistress of the moment...
Other committee members are Jane Levy of UHS, Rev. William J. Schneider of the Episcopal Chaplaincy, and Katherine Kleeman '74 of the Office of Women's Education...
Gargantuan Exercise. Even the World Council of Churches is "a gargantuan exercise in such cultural capitulation," said the Rev. Richard Neuhaus, an antiwar activist and pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Brooklyn. Neuhaus and Fellow Lutheran Peter Berger, iconoclastic author and sociologist at Rutgers, were the originators of the protest. Exasperated by what they consider a church sellout to such man-made ideologies as scientific rationalism and socialism, they wrote the original draft of the statement a year ago, mailed it to 50 churchmen for their reactions and summoned the Hartford meeting to prepare the final declaration...
Ever since last year, when the Rev. Kirby Hensley defeated the IRS in court, the tax men have had reason to worry. Thanks to his self-created church, Hensley got back $13,000 when he won a dispute over his 1969 federal income taxes. With a bit of determination and effort -to say nothing of prayer-other middle-income taxpayers can wind up owing little or no tax if they set themselves up, like Hensley, as church pastors...