Word: clergymen
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...mere pious expressions of sympathy for the Negro? One who thought not was the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, executive head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.'s general assembly, former president of the National Council and one of the U.S.'s most respected clergymen (TIME cover, May 26, 1961). Turning to a fellow board member, Blake said quietly: "Some time or other we are all going to have to stand and be on the receiving end of a fire hose...
...Choice. Blake was one of 283 whites and Negroes, including 26 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen, arrested in an integration march on the gaudy Gwynn Oak Amusement Park outside Baltimore, which has long barred Negroes from its 64 acres. Arrested with him were Bishop Daniel Corrigan, director of the home department of the national council of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Some clergymen who felt that the court's decision was unassailable on strict constitutional grounds were nonetheless disturbed by it as a long step toward secularization of U.S. life. Devotional exercises in public schools, though often perfunctory, have helped to bring religion into children's lives, and perhaps helped some youngsters to grow up into more moral adults than they otherwise would have become. Many religious Americans, while accepting the court's decision as law, regarded it as a loss to religion, to morality and to the children-a loss that parents and churches must strive...
...overseen a reworking of the program for the Bachelor of Divinity degree, the establishment of a Department of the Church to promote closer relations with parishes, and the inauguration of a series of "Reports from the Ministry" to bring students into closer contact with the problems of working clergymen...
...married woman aware of the stresses under which people today marry, and aware of the plain fact that people do not always get along. I am not aware of the needs of any of the people involved in the Rockefeller-Murphy divorces, and I'm sure the learned clergymen aren't either...