Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living with the family. He is president of the Arlington, Mass., Committee on Viet Nam. "As a clergyman, I suppose I'm most sensitive to some of the moral issues involved, and I have been very much impressed with the grounding of McCarthy's thought in Christian moral theology. He says the war in Viet Nam is an immoral war, using the criteria for a just war that have a good many centuries of Christian thought underlying them." Elder long ago decided 'to work within the Democratic Party to reform it." This spring, when...
Similar programs in other cities have been equally adept in educating on a shoestring basis. Last year, Chicago's Christian Action Ministry, a coalition of local churches, set up its own academy in a .onetime bank on the city's West Side. Granting dropouts freedom to work at their own pace, smoke in class, or enter the educational project even after a pregnancy or a hitch in jail, the C.A.M. Academy has chalked up a better college admittance record than that of Chicago's public high schools. Of the 30 dropouts who were graduated at C.A.M. this...
...marks of the new humanity and when it is preoccupied with its own numerical strength. Too many of our discussions are about the internal concerns of our fellowship, too many statistical forms ask only about the budget and fluctuations in attendance and not about outreach and service. The Christian community needs renewal, lest it become a spiritual ghetto." The council also suggested that missionary activities should "place the church alongside the poor, the defenseless, the abused, the forgotten...
...Ecumenically, the council took a major step forward by issuing, for the first time, an open invitation to the Roman Catholic Church to join the World Council. Although theologians recognize the practical problems that would be involved if Catholics should become mem bers of the council, churchmen active in Christian-unity proposals have long considered the prospect inevitable. Hardly an eyebrow was raised when Roman Catholic observers at Uppsala took Communion, as if it were a matter of course, at a Swedish Lutheran High Mass...
...written three other novels in the same vein, has been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation of Terry Southern's amoral, completely antisocial Magic Christian, but it is also disastrously lacking in Southern's wild, anarchistic imagination...