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...week," says Johnson, who reports that the organization is still active. Other clubs included the Good Samaritans, the Galiean Fishermen, the Household of Ruth, the Heroines of Jericho, the Harvard Lodge of Oddfellows, and the Elks. Other Blacks congregated around the many churches in the community, including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which served a large West Indian population. And for politically active Blacks, Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) served as a forum. Garvey, who favored a return of Blacks to their native homelands drew large crowds when he came to Cambridge. Most in the end, however...
...example, members of the huge (though declining) United Methodist Church, which began in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement, want clergy who are "open, accepting, self-critical, patient, participatory and exemplary." All are qualities involved with psychological jargon, interpersonal relationships and group dynamics. John Wesley, meet Dale Carnegie or Michael Murphy of Esalen...
Ward 8, Precinct 5--Residents of 29 Garden St., 20 Walker St., Shepherd House, 60 Walker St. and Coggeshall vote at the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church...
...ambles back to her job across Main Street clutching The Call of the Wild. In her wake, Bank Teller Cindy Leslie carries off Little Women. The Rev. Steve Cain, 30, a Van Gogh beard and casual garb offering no hint that he is pastor of Claypool's United Methodist Church, chooses Marathon Man on the assumption, he says, that this nasty little spy thriller is about running. The Rev. Cain's daughter Rachel, 8, is a small celebrity in Claypool. Year before last, as part of a book-reading contest in the first grade, she was able...
Today there are 3,000 clown ministry groups in the U.S. who put on big noses and suits of many colors in order to serve God. Yet it was only seven years ago that Methodist Minister Bill Peckham organized one of the earliest clown ministries in Elkhart, Ind., among the young people of his parish. Calling themselves the Holy Fools, they began visiting hospitals, mental institutions and nursing homes, where they fanned out to chat with individual patients, occasionally performed short skits or magic tricks and made balloon sculptures. Often they just talked quietly with a patient, held or hugged...