Clergy: Mail-Order Ministers

"Every man who feels a desire to preach is a preacher," says Kirby James Hensley. " And I never met anyone who wasn't a preacher." As president of the freewheeling Universal Life Church Inc., of Modesto, Calif., Hensley is a man of his word. Last week alone he appointed more than 1,000 new ministers in his church, and if a clergy head count is any index of growth, the Universal Life Church may well be the fastest-growing denomination in the U.S. There are already well over 18,000 ministers in Hensley's church. If the present growth...

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