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...have become an integral part of business and civic activities. Procter & Gamble and Federated Stores, for example, both use human potentials groups to increase the effectiveness and morale of their staffs. After hours, some of the employees, inspired by their office training, conduct private encounter groups of their own. Methodist and. Episcopal church leaders regularly schedule group training sessions for their laity, and the University of Cincinnati sponsors sensitivity groups both to improve the workings of its own departments and to aid the community at large. Even the police department is involved. Next month new recruits will be given...
...momentous church mergers are in the works. One would merge the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church, the United Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., the United Church of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the AME Zion Church, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S., and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church into a 25-million member Church of Christ Uniting. The other would merge the Episcopal Church with the Roman Catholic Church. Thus, the Episcopal Church stands as the pivot for the possible creation of a single church within Christendom of mind...
White liberals in the target nations, particularly South Africa, were anguished. "This is no way to make a contribution to the solution of the problem of racialism," said Helen Suzman, the South African Parliament's fiercest foe of apartheid. Methodist Leader Tom Parker despaired of support for such action by followers of "a Saviour who spilt no drop of blood but his own." W.C.C. member churches in South Africa all opposed the grants but decided not to quit the council. Prime Minister B.J. Vorster then warned darkly of "government action" if they did not. Last week the white Presbyterian...
...W.C.C. is now guilty of aiding violent groups, the South African Methodist Dimension observed, then that nation's whites "must stand under similar condemnation for implicitly supporting daily acts of violence" against blacks. Nevertheless, the W.C.C.'s token donation of cash lends moral respectability to terrorism. This, in turn, could further erode support for the W.C.C...
Until a few months ago, the only place where Dale Bumpers was known and admired was the Ozark foothills town of Charleston, Ark. (pop. 1,353), where he is choir director and lead baritone at the Methodist church. He is the city attorney because he is the town's only lawyer, and he has at one time or another represented nearly every business firm, plaintiff, criminal and divorcee in the community's recent history. Outside of Charleston, Bumpers was so unknown that shortly after he decided last spring to run for Governor, one computer sampling showed that...