Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other matters at the Divinity School, more than eighty students met yesterday to discuss charges that there were "racist paternalistic assumptions" in a Divinity School committee's report on educating black clergymen...
That such a union should occur first in Texas came as a bit of a surprise, considering that John F. Kennedy had to defend his Catholicism before skeptical Protestant ministers in Houston during the 1960 presidential campaign. But many of those clergymen were Southern Baptists, who do not belong to the Texas Council of Churches, although they attended the founding ceremonies as observers. As it happened, the only picket line formed was for a social, not a religious protest; it consisted of some 80 Mexican-Americans, who were angered at the sudden dismissal of a popular minister who had been...
...fundamentalist's lions' den, their choice of Tulsa was a deliberate one. "We saw it not as a way of taking on Hargis," said a council spokesman, Faith Pomponio, "but as a way of communication with his people." In fact, most of Tulsa's Protestant clergymen were cordial, and Republican Mayor James Hewgley was almost lyrical in his welcome: "The Lord sent them here." Even Hargis paid the council a backhanded compliment. "The cause of religious fundamentalism," he complained, has been "set back ten years in Tulsa...
...former clergymen, a representative sample compiled coast to coast from names supplied by agencies who help ex-priests adjust to secular life, found that their chief problems in obtaining jobs were lack of skills (28%), overcoming lack of confidence (29%) and deciding what new career to follow (47%). Although the average priest was 38 years old, only 14% found age to be a drawback. Nearly all held bachelor's or advanced degrees-four out of five in theology-but few felt that their specialized education created any employment obstacles...
Space-Capsule Communes. Many theologians are asking whether it is ethical for man to transport bacteria from earth to other planets without knowing what the biological effects might be. Some clergymen suggest that prolonged space travel might result in new forms of family-sort of space-capsule communes. "When you have ships with a dozen or so people on them," says the Rev. Edward Hobbs of Berkeley's Episcopal divinity school, "I would presume that there would be some sort of heterosexual community formed...