Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fulfill the guest's obligation-which is to know when to go home." Remembering that the churches flourished during the Japanese occupation of Burma in World War II, older missionaries are confident that Christianity's convert leaders (among them 750 Baptist ministers) can carry on successfully. Younger clergymen, however, are not so sure, and the Roman Catholics are downright pessimistic. More than half of the Catholic clergy are foreign-born, including five of Burma's eight bishops, and the country has only one, poorly staffed, college-level seminary...
...Calling all publicity "harmful," he appealed to the press to forgo any further news or comment on the police attack; he also sent a bland message to his parish priests, to be read at Sunday Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church, "is that we priests should only preach the Gospel and stay closed in our sacristies. This is simply a meaningless slogan that...
...Many clergymen used the story as a text for sermons. Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of California held up a copy of the magazine as he began a discussion of the subject from the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Thomas Church. Newspaper columnists and editorialists, radio and television commentators, religious and lay periodicals joined in the discussion. Malcolm Muggeridge devoted three columns to the subject in London's New Statesman. "Is TIME Dead?" was the title of a spoof in William Buckley's National Review. The Christian Century offered a tongue-in-cheek estimate that...
...Methodist theology," said Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles (TIME cover, May 8, 1964) in his keynote address, "has always been shot through and through with hope and confidence." At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism. But in the corridors, and around the nation, young Methodist clergymen are peering into the future with some concern, in the belief that their church may not be flexible enough to conquer its forthcoming challenges...
...Institute's program, Coburn said, would fill a major gap in a minister's training. Present divinity education, he said, only widens the separation between clergymen and their congregations and tends to make it "a sterile enterprise unrelated to the needs of society...