Word: membership
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...quieted to a remarkable degree. In a time of stress, like the one we have been through, a lot of people come home again to the fact that the churches and schools, the service clubs and lodge halls hold much of our society together. Jerry Ford's unabashed membership is a factor in his mounting popularity. His world is wider now, but he has not deserted the old haunts, geographically or intellectually...
...NATO. We do not propose that Italy give up membership in any international organization to which it belongs, nor would we propose it if we were part of the government. I am speaking here in particular of the Common Market and NATO. There is now a process of detente in the world. The U.S. and Soviet Union are the main architects, but other countries also participate. A unilateral Italian withdrawal from NATO would upset the entire process of détente...
Three major branches of world Christendom have held out against ordaining women to full clergy rank: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism. The Anglicans have been wrestling over the issue, however, and last week the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada (membership: 1 million) voted overwhelmingly to allow female priests. The breakthrough in Canada is bound to make waves in other provinces of the Anglican Communion, notably the U.S. Episcopal Church, which is deep in an emotionally charged debate over women priests and faces a decision on the matter at its convention next year...
First Decline. The supply of pulpits is becoming tight because, while seminary enrollments are holding steady, Protestant church membership is shrinking. The latest edition of the authoritative Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches reports that U.S. membership in religious bodies slipped last year to 131,245,139. Though the decline was slight (about 180,000), it was the first that the Yearbook has recorded in nearly three decades, and reflected eroding membership in the mainstream liberal Protestant denominations: the United Methodists, Episcopalians, United Presbyterians, the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In such groups, jobs...
...form a brain trust of Muslim leaders across the country to seek solutions to social ills, a scholarship program for high school youths, and a center to treat mental illness. He has also appointed the movement's first woman minister. While maintaining traditional Muslim secrecy about overall membership (estimated at between 50,000 and 100,000, though higher figures are often used), Wallace revealed the dollar dimensions of Elijah's legacy: the Muslims have investments of $14.5 million in Chicago property and $6.2 million in farm land, while their stores, restaurants and other ventures pay $1.5 million annually...