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...acre campus in Tulsa, Okla., which in only six years of existence has won full accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Though for two decades he conducted his crusades as a minister of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Roberts was accepted as a United Methodist minister in 1968. This week he will be one of the guest speakers at a Catskill Mountain retreat for Methodist clergymen from New York...
...highest single game scoring totals recorded last year, eight were by either Neumann, Carr, or Humes, but the fourth highest game total (56 points) was netted by a well known east coast star against Furman. Who was he? The tenth highest game was posted by a Southern Methodist player who led the Southwest Conference in scoring for three straight years before graduating last June...
...injured-leaving Staubach to start the opening game of the season against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the first quarter Staubach fired a 75-yd. touchdown pass, and the Cowboys were never headed as they won 24-3. Off and on over the next two seasons, Coach Landry, a Methodist minister known to his players as the "Rev. T.L.," alternated Staubach and Morton as the starting quarterbacks. After...
...report also fails to make moral distinctions between investments in firms heavily committed to defense and those only slightly involved. Examples: The United Church of Christ, the United Presbyterian Church and especially the United Methodist Church are stockholders in Honeywell, with nearly 21% of sales to the military, including antipersonnel weapons like cluster bombs. On the other hand eight churches cited hold stock in Texaco, with a mere 1.3% of its sales to the military. In implying that all military production is immoral-a highly dubious assumption-the report totally ignores the view of those Christians, undoubtedly a majority...
Streeter's theory, sacrosanct in liberal Protestant scholarship for four decades, has come under some attack in recent years. Southern Methodist's William R. Farmer, in his book The Synoptic Problem, maintains that the Mark theory was based not so much on conclusive proof from the Gospel texts as on a desire for a neat, scientific solution to satisfy a scholarly predilection for evolution: the more primitive Mark evolving into the smoother, more elaborated Matthew and Luke. Farmer returns to a sequence proposed by Griesbach: Matthew, then Luke, then Mark. Farmer's critics ask why Mark would...