Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interfaith age, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy pray together and picket together, and hardly a church exists that has not been preached to by a minister of another faith. But there is a point where ardent advocates of ecumenism draw the line: interCommunion. To receive the consecrated bread and wine together is the ultimate expression of Christian unity, and to do so lightly is morally wrong as long as Christianity remains divided...
...first joint Episcopal-Roman Catholic service in the United States was held in Day's church in November 1964. He also helped to form an Interfaith Housing Corporation which provides subsidized housing to Cambridge citizens...
Since the Confraternity Bible (TIME, May 28) is the official version for the Catholic Church in the U.S., the new RSV will only be used for private study and for interfaith discussion. Nonetheless, Cardinal Meyer wrote, it "should help usher in a happier age when Christian men will no longer use the Word of God as a weapon, but rather, will find God speaking to them within the covers of a single book...
...MARRY A GENTILE." Marriage to a non-Jew is a traditional taboo. Today, in the eyes of most Jewish parents, and particularly grandparents, intermarriage is still something of a calamity. The desire to curb mixed dating partly accounts for the "5 o'clock shadow" that falls on interfaith group activities. But all surveys indicate that intermarriage is rising. A study of Washington's Jewish community (81,000) broke down the rate of intermarrying Jewish men by generations: 1.4% for the foreign-born, 10.2% for the first generation of American-born, 17.9% for the second. And the rate...
...Protestants, talk of corporate merger and interfaith cooperation have reduced interdenominational tensions almost to the vanishing point, making it possible for a layman to switch allegiances as painlessly as he changes homes or jobs. As a result, church "conversions" in fast-growing areas often amount to nothing more than "ecclesiastical cannibalism" of the already committed. Many churches in today's mobile America are so busy absorbing transfers that they are content to limit their outreach to people with a high motivation for joining-their own Sunday-school graduates, or suburban couples with children. Of suburban Washington families whose houses...