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Nervous, but not scared, or hiding anything. Conventioneers will be offered a three-hour tour ranging from preppy Southern Methodist University to single-family ghetto homes, from the J.F.K. assassination site to the astonishing wealth of Turtle Creek. They will see Highland Park, just a nine iron away from the Dallas Country Club, the area's most exclusive. In Highland Park Village, even the Safeway is disguised as a hacienda. Throughout the town, in the rich north and the poor south, the visitor will notice crape myrtle in full, riotous bloom-the only living thing that seems to enjoy...
...bill would unleash "forces likely to inflict critical damage on public education," maintained Democratic Representative Don Edwards of California. Fellow Democrat Bob Edgar of Pennsylvania, a United Methodist minister, urged that religious education be kept out of schools. Overriding such objections, the House last week passed, 337 to 77, a measure guaranteeing students the right to organize voluntary religious gatherings in public high schools, outside class hours, on the same basis as nonreligious groups...
...Arie Brouwer of Inwood, Iowa, former head of the Reformed Church in America, and the Rev. John Bluck, a New Zealand theology professor. Castro becomes the fourth man to occupy the top W.C.C. post since the organization was established in 1948. He will succeed Philip Potter, 62, a Methodist minister from Dominica. A dynamic preacher, Potter has ardently espoused liberation theology, which finds scriptural justification for those who rebel-even violently-against oppressive social and political systems...
Though more soft-spoken than his predecessor, Castro is equally committed to social justice. Born in Montevideo, Castro was one of nine children of a Spanish immigrant mother and Chilean father. The family was Roman Catholic, but as a youth he played with children from a nearby Methodist church. Says Castro, a short, slender man with an infectious smile: "I ultimately found Jesus Christ through my personal contacts. It was not a church-to-church conversion...
...Aires' Union Theological Seminary in 1950, he studied with renowned Protestant Theologian Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Castro, married and the father of two children, has served as a pastor in Uruguay and Bolivia, and has held several administrative posts, including the presidency of Uruguay's Evangelical Methodist Church. In 1973 he moved to Geneva to become director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He left that post last year to work on a doctorate...