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...disbanding of many small groups, including those concerned with race. Hybels, with his convert's zeal on the topic and unique authority, left the main pulpit for several years. Most disturbing, according to about a dozen minority congregants, was that Hybels never promoted a nonwhite member to a pulpit pastorship or senior staff position at the main Willow campus. (Bibbs, never a "teaching pastor," now advises other churches on multiculturalism at the Willow Creek Association.) An African American recently joined Willow's elder board. Curtis Sallee, a black 15-year "Creeker," comments that while "what Bill has done racially...
Dozens of friendly faces gathered in Sever on a chilly Friday evening to glean useful information for their romantic lives. Our sensei in this dojo of love was Dave Swaim, a Harvard Divinity School grad with a wife, three children, and pastorship at Highrock Covenant Church. While the lecture started on a scriptural note, Swaim eventually got a little more personal...
...book Marching Blacks, published in 1945. He expressed pride in his runaway-slave grandfather who in his late years still bore a scar inflicted by an angry slave owner. Powell's father came to New York City in 1908-the year Adam Jr. was born-to take the pastorship of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which he helped build to a membership of 14,000, one of the largest Protestant congregations in the country. Kenneth Clark, the black social psychologist, recalled: "When, as a child, I first saw him, I thought he was God." He retired in 1937 and young...
...Ladies & Unwed Mothers. Son of a New Jersey coal-mine owner, Sargent studied for the Congregational ministry at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, where he met and married the artist daughter of Princeton Theologian Paul Scherer, then a Union professor. He served his student pastorship in New York slum parishes, preached to congregations in Illinois, Massachusetts and Maine before applying for the Paris church...
Confident Faith. The great lesson which German Protestants have learned, under Otto Dibelius' pastorship, is that they can no longer take their church and their faith for granted. The Lutheran fortress is under sharp attack. As Otto Dibelius prepares to mount the pulpit in the Marienkirche for his Easter-Sunday service, he can ponder the latest news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers...