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...individual with many faults and shortcomings, and truly a minor seminarian." - Speaking during his first address as Supreme Leader, in June...
...Dowdy, pastor of the Tar Wallet Baptist Church in Cumberland, Va., who recently helped disband her other church: "When you have a congregation that's historically been able to survive at 20 members and loses 12, they close." And for the first time in American history, the majority of seminarians don't come from rural areas. Shannon Jung, a rural-church expert in Kansas City, Mo., says of young pastors, "A town without a Starbucks scares them." Wolpert recalls a professor's warning to a promising seminarian to shun a rural call: "Don't go. You're too creative...
...reaffirmed his faith and decided he wanted to become ordained. As he was preparing to graduate, he ran into Peter J. Gomes, who has served as the minister of Memorial Church since 1970. Page says Gomes encouraged him to apply for the Epps fellowship, which sponsors a newly ordained seminarian to serve as Memorial Church’s chaplain to the undergraduate community for two years. Page calls it a dream...
...Angeles clergy wondered, "We can't ignore this. What can we do?" They found their answer in the sanctuary movement of the 1980s, when congregations risking arrest by harboring Central American political refugees helped change public opinion in their favor. Salvatierra, a Lutheran, opened her house as a young seminarian and felt that the movement "awakened the moral imagination of the nation." Now she hopes to achieve the same with the undocumented. "We want to make visible these families' status not as faceless border jumpers but as children of God," she says. "And when they are ripped apart by raids...
...Whether we should have gotten together to have a service Monday night or Tuesday night is a question worth probing. I’m really happy we’re doing it this week,” said Kent M. French, a Seminarian and Epps Fellow at Memorial Church. “I’m also happy we’re going to have the church open all night, which is what happened during 9/11...