Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doctors, clergymen and ethicists have never been able to agree on the point at which human life begins. Does it start at conception? When the fetus becomes capable of survival outside the womb? At the moment of birth? Dr. Dominick Purpura of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine offers a new definition. He says that life starts when brain life begins, and he defines this point as some time between the 28th and 32nd week of pregnancy. Purpura bases his conclusion on 16 years of laboratory studies and more recent examinations of 30 premature and full-term...
Suicide is not unknown among clergymen, but typically the circumstances have been blurred by mental illness. Friends said that Van Dusen and his wife, however, were both of sound mind, and they left behind a note declaring that theirs was a responsible decision that "will become more usual and acceptable as the years pass...
Harold Berman, Story Professor of Law, attended the lunch and said the clergymen were all obviously "devout believers...
...member congregation attracts 800 new members a year. He receives more than 10,000 letters each week from admirers, including Doris Day and Hubert Humphrey. The modern church, which he describes as "a 22-acre shopping center for Jesus Christ," is fast becoming a magnet for success-seeking clergymen. Schuller's biggest push for clerical recognition comes this week as he presides over a Convocation on Church Growth for 400 leaders from around...
...lithe 48-year-old who runs seven miles each morning, Schuller now aims to instill optimism in his fellow clergymen. Besides this week's conference, he runs other church leadership seminars at which clerical and lay leaders get massive doses of possibility thinking, together with cassettes of Schuller speeches and pictures posed with Schuller. Says he from the platform of his $3 million sanctuary: "Nothing weighs heavier on my heart than despairing church leaders. I can't believe that Pope Paul said recently the church was going to die.* I pray daily...