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More than Tribal. Western Orthodoxy has been slow to catch on: there are only 3,000 Western Rite Orthodox in about 50 scattered parishes around the world. Even many Eastern Orthodox regard their Western Rite brethren as second-class Christians. But the Rev. William Schneirla, a top-ranking Orthodox theologian from St. Vladimir's Seminary in New York, argues that the Western Rite "is in some respects the most important recent enterprise of Orthodoxy." It gives force to Orthodoxy's claim to be a truly ecumenical church rather than a "tribal religion" and provides "a new instrument...
...Russian Judaism is slowly dying. Three million of our brethren are in danger of disappearing, victims not of organized pogroms, but of government-sponsored discrimination and religious and cultural deprivation. This cultural genocide may lack the tangible horror of the Nazi program but, if it is allowed to continue unchecked, it will be equally effective...
...Since Blake's historic speech, the Disciples of Christ and the Evangelical United Brethren have joined the merger talks...
...last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called the River Brethren and became a Presbyterian largely because of his wife Mamie) joined churches only after their inaugurations. Nevertheless, more fervently than other modern leaders, they preached that the moral strength of U.S. democracy depends on a devout religious faith. John F. Kennedy made significant history by becoming the first Roman Catholic...
There are a couple of obvious objections to such a tournament and the principal one is named Cornell. The Big Red, unlike their Ivy brethren, have been a perennial contender for the Eastern title. Their wrestling program, the best in the League every year since its founding, has attracted innumerable champions to Ithaca, and the college would be understandably reluctant to withdraw from the tournament...