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...participants in the tour have worked together for a long time trying to end the war, DeWitt said. Also in the delegation are Bishop James Armstrong of the United Methodist Church who headed the clergy's campaign for Senator George McGovern, Rabbi Leonard Beerman of Los Angeles, Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian theologian at Stanford, and Sister Mary Luke Tobin of the Sisters of Loretto...
...Since my high school days I have been nauseated by the erratic rantings of professional evangelists. As a Methodist minister I served churches small and large for 41 years and saw this game from the inside. Professional evangelists, with hardly an exception, are addicted to "the power of positive greed...
...Protestant denominations, according to current conventional wisdom, are steadily losing membership. But the truth of the matter depends on the denomination. Year-end statistics show yet another notable decline in the membership of the mainstream United Methodist Church, but a remarkable gain for the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention. The United Methodists reported a drop of 175,000 during the past year, bringing their membership total down to 10,335,000. Methodist Church schools dropped more startlingly, losing 255,000 enrollees. The Southern Baptists prospered all across the board. Preliminary membership projections for 1972 indicate that the denomination passed...
...conservative denominations as the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God. One of the Assemblies' texts explains the persecution of Jews throughout history as "the price Jews paid for their rejection of Christ." Traces of bias were also found in such mainstream denominations as the United Methodist Church and the United Presbyterian Church. One United Methodist lesson, for example, perpetuates the notion that Judaism at the time of Christ was an ossified, spiritually bankrupt religion, whereas Christian scholarship now recognizes that Jewish institutions and intellectual life of that time were in fact dynamic...
...anomaly among civil rights activists. He did not come out of the church, the poverty program, labor or politics. He has a reputation for being abrasive, even to those who side with him. He is an avowed Marxist and atheist in Washington, D.C., which he describes as a "Baptist, Methodist town." In the mid-'60s he was kicked out of the Congress of Racial Equality because he did not believe in its nonviolent strategy. He has frequently acted alone, and once admitted to friends that he could hold all of his meetings in a telephone booth...