Word: tucumcari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title in direct address. "Calling a minister 'reverend,'" says the Right Rev. John Boyd Bentley of the Protestant Episcopal National Council, "is like meeting Churchill and saying, 'Good morning, honorable.' " The plain-talking Presbyterians of New Mexico's Rio Grande Presbytery (33 congregations from Tucumcari to Las Cruces) recently resolved "that all members, friends and enemies of the Presbytery of the Rio Grande are hereby dissuaded and/or discouraged from using 'reverend' henceforth as a form of address to anyone...