Word: clergymen
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Participation as defined by four university clergymen means a regular activity, either service or worship, in a religious organization on or near the campus. And for many students at Harvard, participation in organized religion begins with the United Ministry. This voluntary organization, formed by recognized ministers of all faiths and denominations, has the official responsibility for every student in the university. Some members of the United Ministry, like the Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians, have very little formal structure to facilitate participation. Others, like the Jews and Catholics, have a great deal. But, for each of these groups, organization (or lack...
Phillips' version, unquestionably the most comprehensible of recent Bible translations, has sold more than 4,000,000 copies since the first part of it was published in 1947, and hundreds of British clergymen even use it for church worship...
...would reverberate in public argument, that its decisions would echo through press and pulpit. It was to be expected that the court would strive to make its opinions as airtight as possible, both in law and logic. Instead, the opinions left room for many a doubt and reservation-by clergymen, by parents, and by constitutional lawyers...
...many clergymen believe that the job of the priest is to be a prophet rather than a provocateur, and that his divine calling involves much more than helping Negroes win equality. They argue that Christianity should persuade rather than make peremptory demands since, says one New Orleans Protestant minister, "unless you win men by love, you never really win them...
...white churches of the U.S. seem to have been followers rather than leaders in the civil rights struggle-a condition that many clergymen wonder if even time will correct. "When the tide turns at Jackson, Mississippi," says one Southerner, "it will be because of business people acting for business reasons rather than church people acting for religious reasons...