Word: clergymen
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...smart. The movement itself is overtly anti-intellectual, with constant references to the moral poverty of "brainpower." The 18-year-olds have no trouble grasping a simple solution to complex problems. The world and all its tensione, its bombs and its murderers and its corrupt politicians and its hypocritical clergymen, the world is evil. But all the problems will disappear if all men get the message: Change yourselves. Clean up your dirty characters. Be absolutely moral, live with love and purity and unselfishness and honesty and the world will be good. It is all very nice, and very simple...
...frosty reception from clergymen and social workers caused the plan to fall through. In particular, most social workers felt that law students could not counsel families whose problems were still non-legal. "Students would be," they claim, "in the way of those who know what...
Another area of friction has been the "family lawyer" plan proposed by the CLAO last fall. They hoped that clergymen and social workers would help them select families whose credit, housing, or social status indicated a possible legal crisis in the near future. A CLAO staff assistant would then be assigned to the family to help it avoid the potential crisis...
...conference grew out of a trip of the Clergymen and Laymen Concerned about the War in Vietnam to Washington in early February. At a concurrent meeting in Washington, the National Emergency Seminaries Committee, (a group set up to protest the war), narrowly defeated a motion to hand in their draft cards...
...seminar. "Martin Luther? He was three sheets to the wind on German beer a good part of the time. John Wesley? You'd be sexually frustrated if you had a wife like his." Religious irreverence, insists the institute's dean, Joseph Mathews, helps "retool the minds of clergymen" to secular realities...