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...three of the most sought-after folk singers in the business. But last week they were doing the seeking. At a voter registration rally two miles out of Greenwood, Miss., all three stood on a flatbed truck parked on a dusty field beside Highway 82 and sang the gospel-like We Shall Overcome. The audience, 200 Negro dirt farmers, lustily joined...
...supermovie market and the Biblical pageantry of Samuel Bronston and Dino de Laurentiis are numbing: skyscraper temples to sinister gods, unseen choirs zum-zumming on the sound track, corps of nimble nautch dancers in every other reel. And when it comes to uplifting the masses or spreading the gospel, Buddha's producers are no more missionary than the others. They...
Stendhal has taught three courses this year in the History and Philosophy of Religion, sponsored jointly by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and by the Divinity School. He taught two pro-seminars in New Testament Exegesis, as well as New Testament 123 on the Gospel of Matthew. Stendhal has also sponsored graduate reading and research in New Testament Studies...
...Assembly in Des Moines last week overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the church constitution, declaring that Presbyterians "are obligated to welcome into fellowship" anyone who desires to share in their worship, and that refusal on the basis of "color, origin or worldly condition" causes "a scandal to the Gospel." With less unanimity, they went on to take a strong stand, roughly like the U.S. Supreme Court's, against Bible-reading and prayers in public schools...
...something to do with writing the sections on the sciences and mathematics in the 1945 report, General Education in a Free Society (The Redbook). It seems a little strange, therefore, to see those sections quoted now as though they represent an enduring gospel, and departing from them involves a heresy, one perhaps in which I am myself participating. We had, of course, no unique access to truth at the time that report was written, and that was about twenty years ago. We face another world, another stage in the development of science, a new type of student: even I have...