Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas this month of the National Committee of Negro Churchmen, composed of 300 members from twelve Protestant denominations. Its chief founder, the Rev. Benjamin F. Payton, president of South Carolina's Baptist Benedict College, concedes that U.S. churches have generally demanded equal justice for Negroes, and that white clergymen have been at the forefront of civil rights demonstrations. Nevertheless, says Payton, "I don't think we have yet the concrete actions that clearly suggest that the churches are moving to remedy the great evil of social injustice...
...year ago last May, a board of South End clergymen had acted to meet the problem. They hired Carmelo Iglesias, a Puerto Rican co-worker of Saul Alinsky in New Jersey, to organize the Spanish-speaking people of the South End, most of them Puerto Rican, into a force that could resist exploitation by slumlords and businessmen, attract federal help, and catch the wayward eye of City Hall...
Promise for the Mourning. On October 31, an ecumenical procession of colorfully robed clergymen shuffled solemnly along Wittenberg's cobbled streets from the Lutherhaus, the building where Luther worked and taught, to the stately Castle Church. There, East German Bishop Johannes Janicke of East Germany's Evangelical Church preached a sermon based on the beatitudes that had a distinctly contemporary relevance. Today, he said, "the cry of the masses for righteousness has been clad in atheistic ideology." Nonetheless, "the beatitudes place the poor, the mourning, the meek and the hungry under the promise of God's government...
Despite a declining fervor for the civil rights movement, students are still eager to hear from two Negro militants: Stokely Carmichael and Dick Gregory. When they seek a religious figure, campus organizations think first of two unconventional Episcopal clergymen: the Rev. Malcolm (Are You Running with Me, Jesus?) Boyd and Bishop James A. Pike. Among academics, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith this year seems to be slightly more in vogue than Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan...
David F. Coffey and John E. Cupples, third-year Divinity students, have been given the money to work under the Rev. Harold R. Fraye, Chairman of the Massachusetts branch of the Clergymen Concerned about the War and pastor of the Eliot Church in Newton. They will help him to organize local elergy anti-war activities. Cupples initiated the week-old project and asked Fraye to join him because, Cupples said, "he is the most politically active clergyman" on Vietnam in Greater Boston...