Word: communionism
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...Racial Communion. The crucial problem is not technique or curriculum but pupils. Thus the true subject in considering black education is today's black youth: the most assertive and independent generation of young blacks that America has seen. Almost half of all black Americans are now under...
...significant trend in young black America is a new racial communion that is breaking down class barriers and spurring middle-class youths to help their brothers in the ghetto. The most visible signs of the new black consciousness are Afro hairstyles, dashikis and geles (women's African headdresses). But the new psychology goes much deeper than costume. Today many of the young black generation are openly determined to confront American society as men-black men. They are, as they say, "getting it together...
...participatory theatre: "When an actor comes at me I feel completely alone. What I don't feel is communion-it's isolation. A group grope is when you allow yourself to be pawed over by five or six actors quite thoroughly. But I've never seen anyone pawing back...
...unique authority," which "witnesses to God's revelation," rather than God's written word. The church will allow both infant baptism and believers' baptism, the latter to include confirmation. The Lord's Supper of the "Church Uniting" will be open to anyone now admitted to Communion in any Christian church...
Shannon still wears his episcopal ring as well as a wedding band. He attends Mass regularly at St. Anne's Church in Santa Fe, but carefully honors the excommunication penalty and does not receive the Eucharist; to take communion, he feels, "would be disruptive of the good order of the church." He cares deeply about that order, still reverently referring to Pope Paul as "the Holy Father." Shannon says grace before every meal. He conducts simple home devotions-Scripture readings and a few prayers-several times a week...