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Perhaps partly owing to a shortage of warmth, and even more to a loss of religious authority, the four churches that are the epitome of the cultured Protestant Establishment?United Methodist, United Presbyterian. Episcopal and United Church of Christ (Congregational) ?have suffered a net loss of 2.7 million members over the past decade. Conversely, Jimmy
Evangelicalism is traceable to 17th century Germany and the work of Philipp Jacob Spener, whose "Pietists" rebelled against the formalism and worldliness of the German Lutherans. Like today's Evangelicalism, the movement initially emphasized personal commitment to Christ and devotional life. But when the "Evangelical Awakening" reached Britain, Methodist John Wesley and his successors virtually revolutionized society. Among the results...
...Cuba, all five agreed, the party leads the Revolution and the church follows, dragging its feet with every step. The five Christians--one Methodist and four Presbyterians--saw the Catholic Church, with its displaced petit bourgeois following, as the most reactionary force left in Cuba. In particular, the Catholic Church and to some extent the entire Christian church, has acted as an enormous barrier to the liberation of Cuba's women...
...City Artists. Many would live nowhere but in Seattle. "There are places not far from here where you feel you are the very first person to visit," says Dick Wrangle, 40, an Oklahoman who came to Washington ten years ago as a Methodist minister. Now he and his wife Cheryl are wood sculptors and cabinetmakers who earn a living selling their handmade furniture. The Wrangles would never move from their weathered cedar house in a former black slum in central Seattle. Says Dick: "The environment here fits my work...
...justice in his native America. But here, at 60, Robeson is thinking back to his childhood; to what it was to grow up in lily-white, aristocratic Princeton, New Jersey, in the small enclave of black laborers and domestics that centered largely around his father's church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. "In a way I was 'adopted' by all these good people," Robeson remembers, "...There was the honest joy of laughter in these homes, folk-wit and story, hearty appetites for life as for the nourishing greens and black-eyed peas and cornmeal bread they shared with...