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...grant most-favored-nation trading status to Rumania in recognition of improvements in that nation's emigration policy, some conservative members supported the move because they had been impressed by an unusual concession from the Communist regime. Rumania had agreed to import and distribute 20,000 Bibles supplied by churchmen in the West to members of its Hungarian Reformed Church. However, outraged clergymen and conservatives displayed proof in the Rayburn House Office Building last week that the Bibles had not been put to their intended use. Close inspection of a roll of toilet paper manufactured in a Rumanian factory...
Contradictory attitudes toward race have played a particularly divisive role within the South African churches. Although Afrikaner nationalists place their brand of fundamentalist Protestantism at the heart of the civil theology of apartheid, increasing numbers of churchmen have been hard pressed to come to terms with the very un-Christian effects of that policy. Consequently, Black and white clergymen alike have often been outspoken opponents of apartheid. One white anti-apartheid activist notes, "We have a very sound saying here in South Africa. We say a Christian here is either going to jail, or going to hell...
Bearing staffs and walking with purpose, 25 South African churchmen of all races, led by Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, marched on Johannesburg's police headquarters last week. There they lodged a protest against the government's six-month-long detention of a black priest. A week earlier 239 demonstrators in a similar march in Cape Town had been arrested; this time policemen simply took names and photographs while the clergymen sang hymns...
...themselves primarily in spiritual endeavors. But the 1985 winner of the $185,000 award, announced last week, is an exception: Sir Alister Hardy, 89, won international fame as a British marine biologist. His ideas, however, are as discomfiting for many of his fellow scientists as they are for conventional churchmen. Throughout his career he has had an avocational curiosity about humanity's spiritual experiences and the possibility of using scientific methods to classify and study them...
Jackson is not the only one suddenly to discover the wall separating church and state as soon as Ronald Reagan and his Evangelical friends began climbing over it. Liberal churchmen and politicians, who for years had nothing but praise for the church's role in the civil rights, antiwar and, most recently, antinuclear movements, have become strict First Amendment constructionists now that abortion and school prayer have turned up on someone else's political agenda...