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...damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. (But Jacob's tone sounds a little like the "obsessional heterosexuality" that Ferencxi claimed made peace and fraternity impossible in Europe!) My weary opinion is, as Professor Carlson used to say at Chicago, "It's joost living that wears the organism out; these other vices don't count for so much." I wonder, however, how many Harvardians are "initiated" into anything at age twenty? And surely Mr. Brackman must know that the thing is not the kinds of acts but the background psychosexual history and the interpersonal context...
Last week Bishop Reeves asked to be released from the congregation he can no longer serve. Cape Town's Archbishop Joost de Blank, who is as bitter a critic of apartheid as Reeves himself, accepted his resignation. "A sorry day indeed has dawned for a people that claims to be devout and God-fearing," said Archbishop de Blank. "Many will see it as a victory of anti-Christian forces in this country when a man is outlawed for obedience to the Christian Gospel as he sees...
...exact opposite might prove to be true. The Anglican and the Dutch Reformed Churches find themselves drawn together in mutual concern, as they have not been since Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank of Capetown threatened to resign from the World Council of Churches if the Dutch Reformed Churches did not mend their racial ways. At the close of the World Council consultation, Archbishop de Blank rose and begged forgiveness from the Dutch Reformed Church men for any hurt he might previously have caused in his impassioned campaigning. Promptly and warmly they forgave him. Says Alan Paton: "The archbishop...
...Unbelievable religious persecution!" cried the Archbishop of Cape Town. Most Reverend Joost de Blank, and the chief rabbi of the Transvaal, L. I. Rabinowitz, appealed to the government to revoke the deportation order...
Many feel that Christianity's greatest handicap in Africa is its record of tolerating segregation, notably in South Africa. Two such sworn enemies as South Africa's Premier Hendrik Verwoerd and Cape Town's Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank agree that a crisis is at hand for Christianity on the continent. Said Verwoerd last week: "We are faced today by threats to the future of civilization, to the contribution of the white man in South Africa . . . Christianity is threatened in Africa more than anywhere else." His prescription: continued segregation and repression...