Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brushed under the proverbial rug or efficiently vacuumed away and dumped in the garbage. What does it matter that your lover's eccentric old grandmother was 1952's Waitress of the Year in Kalamazoo, or that Mom never told Dad that her reason for turning down that teaching fellowship at Berkeley was fear of threatening his "male ego." After all, these are the days of affirmative action...
...university is a place for knowledge, it is also a special kind of small society. Yet it is not primarily a fellowship, a club, a circle of friends, a relics of the civil society outside it. Without sacrificing its central purpose, it cannot make its primary and dominant value the fostering of friendship, solidarity, harmony, civility, or mutual respect. To be sure, these are important values; other institutions may properly assign them the highest, and not merely a subordinate priority; and a good university will seek and may in some significant measure attain these ends. But it will never...
...offered the job to a Third World churchman, the Rev. Gottfried B. Osei-Mensah, 40, pastor of the Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya. Once a sales engineer with Mobil Oil in Ghana, Osei-Mensah holds a bachelor of science degree from Birmingham University and worked for the Pan-African Fellowship of Evangelical Students for five years before taking the Nairobi congregation...
Tottering Orders. The appointment underscored the importance of Third World churches in the Lausanne movement. So did the address to the Continuation Committee by Billy Graham, who was named honorary chairman of the fellowship. Noting that more than 200 African, Asian and Latin American boards are now sending out missionaries of their own to spread the gospel, Graham said: "It is our opportunity to help these new societies to channel missionaries into countries where we as Westerners cannot now go." The exclusion of Westerners and the tottering of old political orders should be considered a challenge, said Graham. "We must...
...Catholics are part of the Lausanne fellowship, although some people consider the burgeoning Pentecostal movement in the Roman Catholic Church and its small counterpart in Eastern Orthodoxy as Evangelical...