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...Louisiana's Russell Long, the Senate Finance Committee last week approved a $39 billion tax cut. Under the Constitution, all tax legislation must originate in the House, but the adept Senators attached the tax cut to a minor House-passed bill that would allow the Foundry United Methodist Church of Washington, D.C., to import six bells duty free...
...techniques of clown makeup (lots of powder after applying each color prevents smears). They also studied ventriloquism and went to serious lectures by the leading clerical exponents of Christian clowning. "We estimate that about 20% of the participants are ministers or priests," says Tom Nankervis, director of the United Methodist Church's Office of Communication Education, one of the agencies sponsoring the workshop. "And nearly all the people here are very active in their church...
...might help these "ragamuffins" to better themselves in life. Yet his attempt at social progress was criticized in the press as subversive to the "peace and tranquility which constitute the happiness of society." Even churchmen excoriated the new schools as a violation of the Sabbath. One clergyman, however, a Methodist named John Wesley, took a different view. "Who knows," Wesley wrote in 1784, "but what some of these schools may become nurseries for Christians...
...total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern Baptists, who are doing well, Sunday school participation has dropped by almost 25% in the past ten years. "Mainline" Protestant churches-Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, have been worst hit. Says California's Institute for American Church Growth: "The Sunday school is in a desperate struggle for its very existence...
...police station last October and complained that for ten years her father had been forcing her to have sex with him. She told the officers that she had finally decided to file charges of incest against him at the urging of a friend, Stanley Sinclair, 20, son of a Methodist minister. The following month Sinclair was stabbed to death in Houston. King, who was scheduled to go on trial for incest last week, asked several townspeople who happened to be members of the First Baptist Church to testify as character witnesses; all refused...