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...delegates to the Congregationalist General Council, meeting in Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford, heard that a U.S. district court decision had "finally and conclusively established the legality and validity of the union...
Meeting in another part of the same hotel, Evangelical and Reformed delegates, like their Congregationalist brethren, rushed through last-minute resolutions to clear the decks for both groups to meet jointly this week as the new United Church of Christ...
Australian-born Congregationalist A. Campbell Garnett, philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Philosophical Association, thinks that most theologians have taken to playing a kind of word game of their own that has no relevance to the needs of ordinary men. For example, Paul Tillich, America's most eminent theologian, talks of God as "Being Itself" or "Ultimate Reality"-a hard kind of God to worship, much less to love...
Among Presbyterians themselves, Blake thinks the main obstacle to union is reluctance to have bishops. As for the Congregationalist members of the United Church of Christ, the greatest difficulty will come in becoming a church rather than a loose association of autonomous congregations. Among Methodists, says Blake, the problem is "mathematics-sheer size. The Methodist-Episcopalian reunion talks, which have been going on officially for 13 years, are laboring under the difficulty that the Methodists outnumber the Episcopalians 3 to 1. But in the four-church merger I have proposed, it wouldn't be like that...
...Congregationalist minister, Gallagher was himself so ordained after graduating from Minnesota's Carleton College ('25). In 1933 he took on a difficult, decade-long task, the presidency of Alabama's Negro Talladega College, where he adroitly worked to heal local race relations, became a top white official of the N.A.A.C.P. In 1952, after serving as professor of Christian ethics at the Pacific School of Religion irr Berkeley, Calif., then as U.S. Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education, Gallagher took over City College. It was a bad moment: City was dishonored by one of the messier basketball-bribe scandals...