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...increase of about three thousand in a decade. In the American Baptist Convention, the average ministerial salary (including housing allowance) has risen from $3.903 to $5.795 during the past decade; since 1956 the number of pastors earning $10.000 or more has tripled. Last April the United Lutheran Church in America announced that since 1955 the number of its clergymen earning less than $3.000 had dropped from 182 to 20; the number earning $10,000 or more rose from eleven...
...laity still follows the old frontier custom of helping out the preacher by stocking his larder with food from time to time. The once generous discounts offered clergymen by railroads and stores have been restricted, reduced or cut out. But on balance, says a lay official of the National Lutheran Council, "ministers never had it so good. If pastors had to settle for a straight salary, you'd hear them crying to Kingdom Come...
...United Presbyterian Church's Board of National Missions pointed out that on a recent trip abroad, people kept asking her if Dr.King was still in jail (he isn't). "This made me realize," she said, "how concerned other colored peoples are about our racial problems." Added Lutheran Pastor L. W. Halverson of Chicago: "We didn't come here to be holier than thou...
Guest List. The list of observers for the Vatican Council is rapidly getting filled up. So far, the World Presbyterian Alliance, the Anglican Communion, the World Methodist Council, the International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), the International Congregational Council, and the Lutheran World Federation have agreed to send observer-delegates, who will attend all public and some private sessions of the council. Last week in Berlin, the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, named as its delegate Dr. Edmund Schlink, a Lutheran ecumenical scholar from Heidelberg University. Meeting in Paris, the Central Committee of the World Council...
...Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity announced that a limited number of religion experts would attend the council as its special guests, distinct from the appointed observer-delegates. First three named: Prior Roger Schutz and Pastor Max Thurian, both Calvinists from France's famed Protestant "monastery" at Tarze, and Lutheran Biblical Scholar Oscar Cullmann...