Word: mainstream
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...Jesus Revolution (TIME, June 23) includes preachers of hellfire and promoters of love, fundamentalist Christians, mainstream Protestants, and even some Roman Catholics. Most, however, at least share a common belief in the basic tenets of Christianity: the triune nature of God, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Gospels as the cornerstone of faith. But some so-called Jesus freaks really subscribe to exotic creeds all their own that to orthodox Christians are close to what used to be called heresy. And not only to traditional churchmen: even many inside the movement look suspiciously on these fellow travelers with Jesus...
...other local churches of mainstream Protestant denominations have become involved in the homosexual ministry. Several liberal "straight" churches in San Francisco have made a point of offering a haven to homosexuals since 1964. One of them, Glide Memorial Methodist Church, willingly blesses "pledges of commitment" between homosexuals. A California United Church of Christ minister, Tom Maurer, 53, has recently announced, without reprisal, that he is a homosexual; a seminarian in the same denomination who publicly avowed his homosexuality is expected to be ordained next fall. On the other hand, the Rev. Gene Leggett, 36, was recently suspended by Texas Methodists...
...Poltics of Piety In American Protestantism, as in American political parties, the bitterest factional fights are often within denominations rather than between them. A vigorous, angry, conservative rebellion is challenging the liberals who have dominated mainstream Protestant churches almost steadily since the 1920s. The central issues vary from church to church, but they center on three areas of disagreement: strict v. liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere...
...misdirected-all hurt looks and empty cackle. The prize for most voluble player must, however, go to Mark Burns as the musician's friend. Invented for the film, he shrieks such Viscontian art-and-life lines as "Do you know what lies at the bottom of the mainstream? Mediocrity...
...hope of easing that nightmare, Klebanoff and two other Boston psychologists, Stanley Klein and Maxwell Schleifer, have just published the first issue of a new bimonthly called The Exceptional Parent. The magazine offers advice to help "exceptional" children live full lives-not in segregated centers but "in the mainstream of their communities...