Word: churches
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...University of Wyoming, 14 blacks were dismissed from the football team after protesting an upcoming game with Brigham Young University. Reason: Brigham Young is affiliated with the Mormon Church, which bans Negroes from church offices. Now the Black Students Union at the University of Arizona has demanded that Brigham Young be expelled from the Western Athletic Conference. Similar discontent is spreading among other black athletes, who presented assorted demands and staged protests at Indiana University, the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota...
After four decades as archfoe of liberal Protestantism, the Rev. Carl McIntire, 63, has proved that he has a rare gift: everything he touches turns to schism. Contention has dogged him since his seminary days, when he joined a fundamentalist rebellion against liberalizing trends within the Presbyterian Church. Later, he split with fellow rebels to form his own sect, the Bible Presbyterian Church-and then his own church split yet again. Defections have periodically shaken the ranks of his American Council of Christian Churches (A.C.C.C.) and more recently his International Council of Christian Churches (I.C.C.C.), organizations that Mclntire formed...
...means. More than 600 radio stations carry his weekday "20th century Reformation" broadcasts. He says that he is forming a rival right-wing group to the A.C.C.C. that he will call the American Christian Action Council. And he controls the small (an estimated 8,000 members) Bible Presbyterian Church-at least for the time being. Last month, at the church's synodal convention, 40% of the delegates voted for a rival candidate to replace Founder Mclntire as moderator...
...only recently, when he called for reforms beyond the monastery. All priests, he preached, should take a sabbatical year during which they could decide whether to change their lives and marry or return to their vocations. He refused to accept any new novices as long as service in the church was not "defined with sufficient clarity...
Special services for peace are scheduled today in Memorial Church at noon, in St. Paul's Church at 9 p.m. and in Copley Square after a 5:30 p.m. march by the Boston and Cambridge medical community...