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rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript , but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy , or scoring tools for tests in education?
Pastoral Care was a book written by Pope Gregory I around A.D. 590 to address the responsibilities of the clergy ?
in 1853, the Irish clergyman William Reeves bought the 9th-century Book of Armagh (pictured) for three hundred pounds ?
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay lead cleric ?
Herman Farr , an African American clergyman from Shreveport , Louisiana , single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement ?
Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the first clergymen known to have been tried for murder in the United States ?
Texas clergyman Harold Reeves was the first missionary dispatched to Thailand by the Southern Baptist Convention ?
Anna Maria Garthwaite , the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman , became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk -weaving trade in 18th century England ?
Baptist clergyman W. Winfred Moore was first director of the Baylor University Center of Ministry Effectiveness, designed to prevent burnout among pastors?
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