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...attorney practicing in Ndola, that she was ready to give herself up -if the government guaranteed her fair treatment. Delighted, Stacey immediately won Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda's consent. One afternoon last week, in a remote mud-hut hideout in the north, Alice Lenshina said farewell to 200 hymn-singing tribesmen, climbed into a Land Rover, and with Stacey at her side, was driven off to jail...
...Millions of U.S. Christians emotionally reject the Supreme Court's successive decisions against prayer in schools; in fact, as this month's hymn-laden commencement ceremonies show, prayer is still very much in schools, regardless of the court. But church leaders, at first often prone to echo their congregations in opposing the court, have thought through the legal implications of attempting to overrule the court by constitutional amendment. They now overwhelmingly agree that the court has affirmed the essential meaning of the First Amendment: it protects all religions by establishing none...
...process of a large church trying to find its way." This year's conference, suggests Methodist Layman Charles Parlin, a Manhattan lawyer and a co-president of the World Council of Churches, "might be historic." In twelve brisk days of debate-interspersed with sessions of prayer, preaching and hymn singing-the Methodist legislators are considering petitions and commission reports that could, if accepted, help rekindle much of the church's old zeal. Among the principal issues...
Down & Out. Her discoveries of both God and the devil in jazz reflect perhaps the troubled state of her own spirit. But even so, she seems to have found her way. With the help of a priest, she has written a jazz hymn to St. Martin de Porres, a mulatto saint of the 17th century, and she is now working on a jazz Mass...
With its very own stack on the floor of the Coop, Seven Days of Mourning has quickly established a Cambridge following unequaled anywhere. True, the author, L.S. Simckes (rhymes with HYMN-kiss) is an English C section man at Harvard and writes in the popular bagel-and-lox genre. But even without such ties to the Establishment, Simckes' slim novel would have its appeal...