Word: central
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...Christ last week conceded that they are, in fact, a Protestant denomination. In Kansas City, at the Disciples' annual convention, 4,700 delegates overwhelmingly approved the principles of a new constitution that will transform the movement from a loose grouping of autonomous congregations into an organization with central direction and authority. The change was symbolized by dropping two letters from the Disciples' proper name. Previously, they were members of the Christian Churches; now they will be known as the Christian Church...
...more-or-less Congregational theology and structure that united a number of like-minded churches in a voluntary association. But as the Disciples grew in numbers (membership is now about 1,250,000) and expanded their activities, they found it difficult to get along without some kind of central authority. Today the churches operate 117 autonomous missionary and social agencies and 23 colleges, all of which are supported by voluntary contributions. Leaders of the Disciples have long deplored the lack of a policy-making body as highly inefficient...
First proposed in 1958, the reorganization plan allows the local congregations considerable autonomy. They will keep title to their property, retain the right to plan their own services, decide on membership requirements, hire their pastors. Central policy, however, will be decided by a new general assembly composed of 5,000 delegates elected by the congregations, which is expected to meet every two years, and a 400-member general board. A new general minister and president" and a 47-member administrative committee will carry out the decisions of the assembly and board...
Cascade of Grease. In many ways, the patron saint of the exhibit is Soft Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who last year got the City of New York to hire two gravediggers to dig a hole for him in Manhattan's Central Park, then fill it in, thereby burying a nonexistent "underground sculpture." His offering this time round: a Plexiglas cube stocked with night crawlers and humus, titled Worm Earth Piece. Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss...
...taxes take away all of the wage gains. For months, he has been blaming the Johnson Administration for causing inflation by mismanaging the economy. "Why are prices rising faster than they have in a generation?" he asks. "Why is the American dollar viewed with greater suspicion in the central banks of Europe than it has been for a century? Why is the American taxpayer groaning under the heaviest tax burden in history? Because for five years the Administration has refused to keep federal spending within federal means...