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...more serene times, the campus chaplain had little more to do than pre pare sermons for compulsory chapel and ladle out doses of manly Christian advice to the spiritually downhearted. Today, he is likely to wear wrinkled chinos instead of a turned-around collar, read Playboy as well as Plato and center his operations in a coffeehouse rather than in a Gothic church. Says Methodist Chaplain Alfred Dale, of San Francisco State College, "I'm generally where the action...
...means of nurturing those who are already committed, not of reaching out to students. Most ministers agree with Yale's Protestant chaplain, Presbyterian William Sloane Coffin, that "liturgy doesn't carry the freight it used to," and they freely experiment with different worship forms. At M.I.T., chapel services have included everything from jazz Masses to a dance by a Radcliffe girl in leotards. Episcopal Father Malcolm Boyd, a "chaplain-at-large" to U.S. college students, often starts a prayer service with a reading from Edward Albee or from one of his own one-act plays about racial conflict...
...many students, doubt and rebellion seem to be essential phases of the transition from an inherited faith to one of their own, and campus chaplains believe that their job is to help the students make this spiritual passage. For that reason, the chaplains are neither worried about low chapel attendance nor dismayed that relatively few students remain openly loyal to the faith they grew up with. "The fruits of the campus ministry," says Atlanta's Bartlett, "sometimes come five years later...
...LUMINOUS DARKNESS, by Howard Thurman. The essays of Dr. Thurman, a Negro and dean emeritus of Boston University's chapel, reflect the experience of a man who has given thought as well as action to the cause of his people...
...LUMINOUS DARKNESS, by Howard Thurman. The essays of Dr. Thurman, a Negro and dean emeritus of Boston University's chapel, reflect the experience of a man who has given thought as well as action to the cause of his people...