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Doctrinal Diversity. When the Methodists merged with the smaller, more conservative Evangelical United Brethren in 1968, the new United Methodist Church set up a commission to sort out what it believes. Commission Chairman Albert Outler told the Atlanta conference that the denomination displays "a bewildering spectrum of doctrinal diversity. Somewhere in the United Methodist Church there is somebody urging every kind of theology still alive. And not a few that are dead...
...Mormon brethren "choke" on the words Brother Anderson. And I am proud to say that I am one who does not. I have known Jack Anderson as his student and his friend for 15 years...
...related to Israel grew out of the determination of American Jews to help their brethren in the Soviet Union. By and large, there was solid Christian sympathy for these efforts. Only two weeks ago in Chicago, a formidable ecumenical group convened a National Interreligious Consultation on Soviet Jewry?including liberal Protestants, black churchmen, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. But at least some critics have felt that in pressuring Moscow to allow Jews to immigrate to Israel (a sort of modern re-enactment of the let-my-people-go theme), a privilege of free movement was being sought for Russian Jews...
...regularly and serves as "a home teacher," visiting Mormon families regularly for counseling and prayer. He is a bit too liberal and splashy for Mormon leaders like Senator Wallace F. Bennett and Hotelman J. Willard Marriott. Church etiquette requires that he be called "Brother Anderson," but some of the brethren choke on the words...
...article titled "The Bald Primaqueera,"* which blasted the theaters of cruelty and the absurd, Sean O'Casey offered his view of the source of this sense of degradation: "It was Artaud-the latest trumpeter of the Primaqueeri-or one of his brethren, who gave us a picture of a beautiful girl, naked, with a malignant tarantula spider between her lovely thighs." In Harold Pinter's work, the temptress/tarantula becomes the slut/ mother. The theme is developed with the greatest finesse in The Homecoming. Ruth and her husband Teddy come home to England to visit Teddy's widowed...