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...public view last June when the Rev. Eugene Stockwell, head of the council's overseas division, suddenly removed C.W.S. Director James Mac-Cracken, 52, a respected, tough-minded Presbyterian layman, who had held the post for nine years. Personalities and bureaucratic infighting played a major role in the MacCracken firing with three days' notice, but a basic dispute over philosophy brought things to a head. The day before he acted, Stockwell had met with the committee of denominational officials that oversees C.W.S. and in effect accused MacCracken of foot dragging on new policies for C.W.S...
What Stockwell wants and MacCracken resisted is the addition of political emphases to traditional relief work. Using the latest ecumenical Newspeak, Stockwell urges a major commitment to "justice/liberation/systemic change concerns" and also "education/ conscientization programs" aimed at U.S. churchgoers. Behind the impasto of jargon is the basic idea that traditional relief and development programs serve as a mere "Band-Aid" and fail to remove the political causes of poverty...
Pull Out. The denominational overseers so far appear to have stonewalled all pressures to change C.W.S., but the debates continue as they seek a successor to MacCracken. There is even talk that C.W.S. might leave Stockwell's department or pull out of the National Council in order to preserve its longstanding strategy...
...Your booklet is a fine statement." Henry Noble MacCracken, former president of Vassar College...
...Your booklet is a fine statement."--Henry Noble MacCracken, former president of Vassar College...