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...Protestant churches, a small but rising number of parishioners look up at the pulpit on Sunday morning?and see a woman. The United Methodist Church has 576 ordained women, up from 332 in 1970, and the United Presbyterian Church has more than 200, compared with 103 in 1972. The Lutheran Church in America, which began ordaining women in 1970, has 27 women in clerical posts...
...most widely revered political saint today is Brazil's Dom Helder Pessoa Càmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife (TIME, June 24, 1974) and partisan of the poor. No better testimony for Dom Helder exists than the witness of those who have suffered in his behalf. Former Methodist Missionary Fred Morris, who last year was tortured by Brazilian authorities at least partly because of his friendship with Dom Helder, puts it simply. "Being with him, watching him, listening to him, one is less and less aware of him and increasingly aware of the reality to which he points...
Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Chorale presents a concert of Christmas music including a Bach contata and carols from the 16th to 20th centuries. Tickets $1.50 available at the door and at Holyoke Center. Harvard Epworth Methodist Church...
...unifying the world's Christians, largely by talking out differences on theology. But increasingly the council has gravitated toward social and political "liberation." Whatever its worth, this emphasis has divided Christians as much as it has united them. The Rev. Philip Potter, 54, a black West Indian Methodist who succeeded the U.S.'s Eugene Carson Blake as chief executive in 1972, is himself an activist, but admits that the policy has been "costly...
...Protestant, surprisingly, has come out against any court ruling in their favor. Ethicist Thomas C. Oden of New Jersey's Drew University is concerned mainly about establishing a precedent that could weaken the legal barriers against all kinds of euthanasia. That concern is discounted, however, by fellow Methodist Paul Ramsey of Princeton University, author of The Patient as Person (Yale University Press). Says Ramsey: "Everybody has reason to fear the onset of euthanasia, but it doesn't seem to me that a carefully drawn court opinion would be the edge of the wedge toward active killing of terminal...