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...Wise, one of the first hippie Christians: "We use the Bible as therapy. It is as effective as anything going." Wise adds that the Jesus kids are growing up, marrying and having children. "They are more concerned with working out their life situations as families, rather than as Gospel gypsies." Other Jesus alumni are less noticeable because they are going to school. The new seminary at Anaheim's bustling Melodyland Christian Center hopes its nearly 250 students will provide theological leadership for the Neo-Pentecostalists, who form a major element in the youth revival...
Last week Durrell, 48, began a ten-week tour of the U.S. and Canada−his first North American visit−"to spread the gospel among the gentiles of the zoo world" and to drum up funds for SAFE (Save Animals From Extinction), an umbrella group now being set up to foster Jersey-like reserves in this country. The gospel according to "Mr. D," as his devoted staff of 20 call him: "Zoos have to become breeding reservoirs...
...council's growth in breadth and numbers has not been without problems. Though conversations with Rome have increased, the prospect of official Roman Catholic membership is remote. Evangelicals both within and outside the W.C.C. question whether it has not virtually abandoned the traditional goal of spreading the Gospel. The W.C.C. has financial troubles, too. The combination of Swiss inflation and dollar devaluations has made the American and Canadian contributions-40% of the $2,000,000 budget-worth roughly half of what they were just five years...
Much of the book's success is due to its remarkable popularity among religious groups. The apparent reason: I'm OK reveals Harris-a practicing Presbyterian - as a cross between Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. A cheerful mass evangelist, he preaches a gospel of original sin and carries, as he himself puts it, a "message of hope" to an ever increasing flock of converts. "We simply cannot argue with the endemic 'cussedness' of man," he says, in a characteristic mixture of everyday and evangelical language...
...excitement over Watergate? What is taking place in Washington these days is simply a reflection of ourselves and that creed we have adopted as being gospel...