Word: douglass
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...obsolete," Dr. Truman Douglass told a meeting of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries in St. Louis last week. "The new world now emerging demands a new style of church and leadership for which we are unprepared." Perhaps more than any other U.S. Protestant body, the experiment-minded United Church of Christ (membership: 2,100,000) is searching for a new style, testing means of modern evangelism to reach people who have lost touch with, and faith in, organized Christianity. Dr. Douglass, executive vice-president of the United Church Board, describes these experiments as "unstructured ministries." The theory behind...
Bill Moyers (he was christened Billy but dislikes the diminutive) is a slim, pallidly handsome Baptist lay preacher who has directed the intellectual side of L.B.J.'s shop with quiet efficiency since Johnson moved into the White House. He supervises such speechwriters as Richard Goodwin, Douglass Cater and Horace Busby, tosses in the scriptural citations of which Lyndon is so fond. Better than any other staffer, he knows Johnson's mercurial moods, manages to assuage the boss with well-reasoned argument, never shouts or panics. Yet such self-control comes at a price: Moyers suffers from a chronic...
This tasteless story is laid in the near future, and it pretends that Douglass Oilman, the first Negro President in U.S. history, has just entered the White House. He has arrived there by a singular coincidence of disaster: the Vice President has died of a heart attack, the President and Speaker of the House have both been crushed by a collapsing ceiling. Dilman, as president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, is next in line. In Wallace's contrived exercise, Dilman is made to contend with 1) a son who belongs to a Black Muslim-type society...
...major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, is regarded as divine revelation, but there is never any theological debate in the church about how it should be interpreted. Christian Scientists feel that there is no need to modernize her teachings, and, says Board Chairman Inman Douglass, "within the church organization there is no controversy on this point, no differing of opinion, no liberal and conservative wings. No, nothing like that...
Riding Herd. Two recent Additions to Johnson's staff also are being eyed closely by the others, since their roles are not yet clear. Douglass Cater, 40, former national affairs editor of The Reporter magazine, is expected to provide long-range thinking on foreign policy, will work with Bundy-although by no means at Bundy's request. Princeton History Professor Eric Goldman, 48, although not a fulltime aide, is an idea man who is supposed to draw upon the nation's intellectual talents...