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...last week, the grass-roots questions had begun to affect Protestant institutions directly. At a closed-door meeting in Atlanta, President Finis Crutchfield and other executives of the Council of Bishops in the huge United Methodist Church took the unusual step of scrapping the agenda for the hierarchy's May meeting. Instead it will consider a demand that the church investigate whether church offerings are supporting questionable programs...
...January with a media one-two punch. First came a piece in Reader's Digest (circ. 17.9 million), then a broadside from the top-rated CBS-TV show 60 Minutes (audience: 22.9 million households). In a scene that Protestant leaders were to denounce as unrepresentative, cameras panned a Methodist church in Logansport, Ind., and Correspondent Morley Safer intoned that members had discovered that some collection-plate money was being spent "on causes that seem closer to the Soviet-Cuban view of the world than Logansport...
...conservatives' main targets are the National Council of Churches, whose president is United Methodist Bishop James Armstrong, and the national bureaucracies of the council's key member denominations, particularly the Methodists and the United Presbyterian Church...
Many of the Protestant agencies now under attack do not seem to be greatly concerned with that threat. Next week the United Methodist Reporter, the church's most influential newspaper chain, will begin reporting on its own exhaustive N.C.C. investigation; among other things, it found an overwhelming pattern of left-wing political bias in hundreds of N.C.C. political statements over the past five years. Even James Wall of the liberal Christian Century magazine says council staffers often supply answers "filled with romantic revolutionary rhetoric. Mistakes of the left are either not seen or, as one person...
Harvard has an opportunity to match its best showing at the NCAA in 1979 when it finished 13th Southern Methodist University leads the championships after the first...