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Show SIMPLE - LIFE FOR DO MINE Tacoma Minister Resigns Charge to Farm and Raise Chickens Calls Self a Failure. Tacoma, Wash.- Condemning himself him-self as a failure as a pastor, the Rev. William D. Buchanan, pastor of Park University church, has tendered his resignation and in an open letter to the public announced that he is about to retire to the "simple life." "I am a farmer by Instinct and a minister by choice," the letter says. "I have come to feel that I should first practice and then preach, and from now on I shall make my living as a breeder of chickens." Mr. Buchanan's eight years in the Tacoma pulpit have been marked by dignity and reserve, and his unexpected unexpect-ed announcement has caused city-wide comment. |