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...Alan Barth, editorial writer for the Washington Post, emphasized this point the most. He said, "An editorial writer is first a reporter who knows how to read as well as listen and second, one who wants to improve the community of which he is a part. Starting as a reporter will keep an editorial writer from living in an ivory tower...
Both Lyons and Barth agreed that a job on a small town newspaper, if it can be obtained upon graduation from college, is preferable to a year at a graduate school of journalism...
Swiss Theologian Karl Barth has somewhat the same position in contemporary Protestant thinking that Einstein* has in science: Barth's complex system of thought is fully appreciated only by the highbrows, but, like Einstein's, his influence is wide and deep. When the Christian Century began a series of articles by theologians on "How My Mind Has Changed in the Past Decade," it led off with the contribution of 62-year-old Karl Barth...
Published in two installments, Barth's essay might disappoint those who were looking for a stiff workout in theology. Instead he served up a chattily informal account of his past ten years (even including an operation for hernia). But among the trivia are passages of larger interest...
...passage of years, said Barth, had made him "definitely milder-in fact, more peaceable and readier to see that, after all, one is in the same boat with one's opponents . . . To say 'yes' came to seem more important than to say 'no' . . . Theologically, the message of God's grace came to seem more urgent than the message of God's law, wrath, accusation and judgment...