Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rev. Peter J. Gomes will lead a service at 12:10 p.m. in Memorial Church in commemoration of what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 49th birthday...
Nationally, the Episcopal Church has lost a member every 15 minutes over the past decade. At Darien's St. Paul's Episcopal, though, Sunday attendance has climbed from 200 to 1,200 in less than five years. Observes the Rev. Everett ("Terry") Fullam, 47, a Harvard Ph.D. who is mainly responsible for infusing the local commuter set with Pentecostal fervor: "The church has functioned subnormally for so long that when it becomes normal, it seems abnormal...
...says the Rev. Paul Moore, 35, minister of midtown Manhattan's Church of the Nazarene, "is to get the suburban church off its butt to save the cities. The government can't do it. Only the Gospel can." His aide, Bill Bray, gives short shrift to the "humanistic programs" run by traditional churches in the slums. As he sees it, they leave out the experience of God: "If I was like that I'd work for the government...
Then there was the church. Under the Rev. Ralph Peterson, 45, Saint Peter's had become a lively midtown gathering place. Peterson introduced jazz vespers on Sundays, and made the basement into a lunchtime theater where office workers could eat their sandwiches and watch plays. Saint Peter's had found a new role in the city, and the well-named Peterson was loath to move out. Yet the church held the key position on the block. The solution: Citicorp bought the old church for $9 million, demolished it and built in its place a new structure that included...
...committee held a reception in the PBH parlor room yesterday afternoon for Whitlock. Rev. Peter J. Gomes, chairman of the committee, said at the reception, "It is fitting that this office is named for Dean Whitlock because it is at the heart of the work that is done here...