Posted on 12/26/2010 12:31:28 PM PST by Mikey_1962
In short, screw your bro.
....the Jesse Jackson model!
I've never known a white Baptist Pastor who consented to be called "Reverend" - Pastor, Brother, Preacher but not Reverend.
You got my thoughts exactly.
vaudine
Is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on the bad charity list? Morris Dees and his few top employees take out high salaries, what they call education expense is all the fund raising literature they send out and little goes to anything else.
I have never heard of a white “Reverend” either. Maybe it’s a Black thing.
Wait a minute; without the aid to THAT particular group, Democrats would be out of business, and tons of black "activists" would be un-needed!
Then again, we'd save Billions of taxpayer wealth-redistribution dollars for sure!
A number of denominations use “Reverend” as a courtesy prefix for clergy: “The Reverend Mr. Lastname” or “Reverend Father Lastname” are the equivalent of elected officials’ being “The Honorable Representative Lastname.” The titles are used in the addressing of letters, and that’s about it.
You call your congresscritter “Congressman” or “Representative” or “Mister,” in every other usage, and most people call their clergy “Father” or “Deacon” or “Mister” or “Pastor.” Baptists seem to me to be more likely than other groups to address a pastor as “Reverend,” in speech, as in “Reverend Graham,” but I’ve never heard any use “reverends” in this way as a plural noun. They would say “pastors” to identify a group of church leaders.
The Silver Star Families of America, an organization that assists the wounded, ill and dying of the Armed Forces from
all wars, runs less that 5% admin.
And it is actually in their by laws.
Check out charity financial pages before you donate to see how transparant they are.
With a salary of $303,936 a year, all I can say is that Mo Dees is living well. It must be good to be oppressed.
So?
I agree, I agree!!!
Reverend is an adjective, and your reference to politicians
is fine. You wouldn’t address your Senator by saying,
“Well Honorable, I disagree with you.”
You can’t trust government stats with things like that because of the way government accounting goes.
I doubt if the SSA numbers are comparable to private industry.
La.
Exactly. Nor would you say, “Several of the honorables were indicted in Wake County last week.”
I'm 65, Baptist my entire life and have known many Baptist Pastors and have never met a Baptist Pastor who wanted to be addressed by the title "Reverend".
I've never met Sharpton or Jackson and don't even know if they claim to be Baptist.
News people refer to them as Reverend.
My current Pastor has an earned doctorate, (As opposed to an honorary one) and prefers to be called brother Bobby.
Just going from the general media. References to Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham always say “Reverend Graham,” as if that’s what you’d say if you met either man in person.
Would real people (non-journalists) say Mr. Graham?
Our Puerto Rican deacon, “Reverend Mr. Rafael Fuentes,” according to the bulletin, goes by “Brother Rafael.”
Please see my number 36 and 37 reply
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