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...response," he said. "We found that what separates America and Greece is not just the ocean. It is the mentality." The return to the homeland did not help the cause of cultural Hellenization in American Orthodoxy. One resolution, approved overwhelmingly by the congress, called for more English in the church's worship...
Since 1867, the bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion have gathered at London's Lambeth Palace approximately every ten years to consider the state of their church. This year, some delegates doubted whether the Tenth Lambeth Conference, which convened last month, was worth holding at all. By last week, though, several notes of relevance had been introduced into the discussion, and there was hope that the conference might produce some lasting results for Anglicanism...
Faith and Ministry. The overall theme of the month-long meeting is "The Renewal of the Church," with particular reference to faith, ministry and church union. Subordinate topics for consideration range widely, from the proper relationship between Christianity and secularism to such purely ecclesiastical issues as Prayer Book reform. There is ample opportunity for bishops to raise new issues. Last week, for example, Archbishop Donald Coggan of York formally proposed that women be admitted to the priesthood-an idea that was shouted down by his peers...
Liberated to Care. Ministers and priests still generally disapprove of pot as a way of life. The Rev. Al Carmines, associate minister of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, maintains that marijuana is no incentive to Christian values. "It doesn't particularly involve one with responsibility for one's fellow man," he says. "The liberation of the Gospel has to do with being liberated to care and not being liberated for ecstasy for its own sake...
...pastoral counseling, very few ministers would think of advocating pot. The reason, however, seems to be less a matter of morality than that smoking it is against the law. Jonathan Tuttle, a United Church of Christ minister who works with teen-agers on Chicago's North Side, believes that using pot should be an individual decision. In counseling a youth, Tuttle says, "I inform him of the most pervasive medical opinions and of the legal hassle. Then I tell him to be cool about...