Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference grew out of a trip of the Clergymen and Laymen Concerned about the War in Vietnam to Washington in early February. At a concurrent meeting in Washington, the National Emergency Seminaries Committee, (a group set up to protest the war), narrowly defeated a motion to hand in their draft cards...
...resident community of 185-105 adults, the rest children and teen-agers-who live together in apartment buildings belonging to the institute. Each couple is given two rooms, plus another room for every two children. The core of the institute is its 20 "permanent members," mostly Protestant clergymen, who have banded together into a corporate ministry. The rest of the community consists of "interns," who spend a year at the institute, and "fellows," who have no definite terms of residence...
...seminar. "Martin Luther? He was three sheets to the wind on German beer a good part of the time. John Wesley? You'd be sexually frustrated if you had a wife like his." Religious irreverence, insists the institute's dean, Joseph Mathews, helps "retool the minds of clergymen" to secular realities...
...recent issue of Christian Advocate magazine, Stanley Rowland Jr., editorial director of the United Presbyterian Church, argues that the search for new themes and forms is no different from what Jesus did in "interpreting afresh the faith" for his generation. Whether churchgoers like it or not, he says, clergymen are attempting to translate "information about the Word into the lifetimes of the people." Any theme or technique that makes God's message a living reality, Rowland suggests, has a valid place in the preaching of the church...
During the meeting Barry F. Johnson '69 proposed sending 40-sponsored Northern businessmen, educators, clergymen and students to the South to keep alive the flicker of "liberal interest in the Southern moderates who have seen the light" concerning civil rights...