Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...person hardly expects the arrival of 460 Anglican clergymen to signal wholesale whoopee. But judging from the Lambeth '68 guidebook, printed to help the bishops when they met last week for their decennial conference in London, somebody expects the old boys to kick up their heels a bit. In the section on where to eat, the Barque and Bite was highly recommended because "you get a sherry on the house while you study the menu." Chez Solange came out as "very, very French" with "ludicrously large helpings, noisy French neighbors and good carafe wine." L'Etoile was billed...
Place of Confrontation. Exercising sanctuary privileges will, at best, only delay the inexorable law. Yet many clergymen are delighted with the opportunity to use their houses of worship in what they feel is an openly defiant way of supporting dissent. Roman Catholic Monsignor George W. Casey of St. Brigid's Church in Boston says that he finds some comfort in the fact that draft resisters-most of them nonreligious-have sought the church "as a place of confrontation. Church has been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes...
...Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma, where a group of former Benedictine nuns have transformed themselves into "Sisters for Christian Service," in this program delineating the new mood and trends of Catholicism in America. Bishop James Shannon of Minneapolis speaks for the church; other views are expressed by a variety of clergymen...
Peasant Revolts. The authors convincingly dispel the nostalgic notion that the nation's colleges, until this century, were amiable castles of learning where faculty and students worked harmoniously together. The early U.S. college teachers were nonprofessionals, often aspiring clergymen or wealthy aristocrats; they saw themselves "as policemen whose job was to keep recalcitrant and benighted undergraduates in line." The faculty, in turn, was intimidated by domineering presidents intent on "imposing their personal stamp on the entire college." The aim of trustees was generally to promote a special interest-a religion, a social class, a vocation or locality...
Traditionally, members of a congregation are a captive audience who can either doze off or walk out, but cannot talk back. Today, more and more U.S. clergymen are letting the people in the pew talk back by experimenting with "dialogue sermons" as an alternative to the pulpit monologue. One reason for this communal approach to the exposition of God's word is that today's educated congregations are unwilling to put up with authoritarian preaching that lacks the stamp of credibility. Advocates of the dialogue sermon point out that since industry, government and education have discovered the virtue...