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...Better Television (CBTV), which claims to represent 400 conservative organizations, including the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, has been threatening to attack network TV's Achilles' heel by a consumer boycott of its skittish sponsors. The head of CBTV is the Rev. Donald Wildmon, a Methodist preacher from Mississippi, who for the past four years has been monitoring TV as founder of one of the coalition's member groups, the National Federation for Decency. Relying on a new list of TV's most and least "constructive" shows, put together from a survey made...
...most of the efforts to help are genuine. A Brooklyn, N.Y., black newspaper, Big Red, is raising funds for the Atlanta police department. St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Mass., is urging members to pray and wear green ribbons, symbolizing life. The Rev. Willie Taplin Barrow, a Chicago mother and minister, helped organize a group of 200 women to travel to Atlanta to meet with parents "to find out how we can help." Says Barrow: "If everybody just prays, God can do anything...
...Leroy Attles, pastor of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, said yesterday his church has circulated petitions and plans a fast next Sunday to coincide with a student march in Atlanta protesting the killings--all of which remain unsolved...
With some reason. Between 1970 and 1975 the Roman Catholic Pallottine Fathers of Baltimore were accused by Maryland's attorney general of frittering away some $45 million in mission funds. The United Methodist Church is financially aboveboard, but there are ideological disputes. Last year a layman who works for the AFL-CIO complained that his church had wrongly given $442,000 in aid to "totalitarians" who support revolutionary regimes in Cuba and elsewhere. Church officials contended that helping groups with Marxist ideas was a "risk" modern Christians must take to help the "oppressed...
...learned local politics from his maternal grandfather, a county official and Goldwater Republican. At Michigan State University in the mid-'60s, he came under the influence of the antiwar movement and a left-wing instructor. "I became a soft-core radical," he recalls. But he remained a faithful Methodist, channeling his antiwar advocacy through church efforts...