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...major denominational merger is about to create the nation's largest Protestant church. Meeting separately in Chicago last week, the general conferences of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren approved a formal constitution for their long-discussed union. If, as expected, the constitution is ratified by the annual regional conferences of both churches, the United Methodist Church-amalgamating 10.3 million Methodists and 750,000 members of the E.U.B.-will come into being in the spring of 1968. (The Southern Baptist Convention, currently the nation's largest Protestant faith, has 10.8 million members...
...Indiana, a poll released by the Democratic State Committee gave Representative Charles Halleck, 66, a former House Republican leader, 41%, against 38% for challenger Ralph McFadden, 33, a Church of the Brethren minister, with 21% still undecided...
...increasing divorce. In the current issue of Marriage magazine, an article by French Priest-Psychologist Ignace Lepp suggests that it is time for the church to do something about them. "Does our faithfulness to principles give us the right to ignore the suffering of our brethren?" asks Lepp, who died last month at 56, shortly before his article appeared. "Is it really in the interest of the church to exclude from the Christian community so many men and women involved in invalid marriages...
While the era is welcomed by every level, it is just beginning; there is still plenty for the Government to do before it becomes a really flexible partner. Many federal programs, framed by bureaucrats who often scorn as incompetent their brethren at the lower levels, still come with more strings than a troupe of marionettes, leaving no room for needed diversity and thereby threatening both the initiative and independence of the states. "The Federal Government earmarks grants for specific purposes," says James Q. Wilson, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. "In many cases, those purposes...
...northeast, using both live singers and films in popular traveling road shows. After a mohlam refrain like "May I sleep with you, beautiful girl, may I?", the singers come on with "Our Thai brethren should not forget that Thai people can be owners of land, but in Communist countries land belongs to the state...