Word: gospeling
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...Folk & Gospel...
...Dean Jerald Brauer of the Uni versity of Chicago Divinity School analyzes the conflict, the council's sincere critics "do not think that the churches have the responsibility, not to say the right, to employ the Gospel as a critique as well as a bulwark of American society. The very fact that the council is under attack is fairly good evidence that it is seeking to fulfill the role it ought to play in American society." The council proposes, in any case, to amplify the role. The General Board last week gave its approval to a number...
Burke has effectively used many of the delinquents' versions of the Gospel in his own detention-home services. The greatest value of the project, he thinks, is that it helps the youths find a way of expressing their genuine but inchoate and undeveloped religious faith...
Both efforts to paraphrase the Bible in reform-school jargon were inspired by the Rev. Carl F. Burke, 45, the detention home's Protestant chaplain, who believes that the language of the Gospel is puzzling and irrelevant to children from urban slums. Burke formed this opinion at a summer camp for delinquents, when he tried to explain to a boy from a broken home that God was like a father. "Oh, yeah?" the boy answered. "If he's anything like my old man, I hate...
...help his boys discover the real meaning of the Gospel message, Burke has encouraged them to rephrase it in their own terms. The Good Samaritan thus became the "cool square" who helped a mugged victim after a "hood" and a "squeak" (not so cool as a hood) had passed him by. "You don't have to be a 'square' to show love and to be sorry for someone and to help a guy," the parable ends. "But get with it, man-this is what God wants you to do." In the Christmas story, Jesus is born...