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Died. The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sock-man, 80, famed radio preacher who propounded Christian verities to millions of Americans each Sunday from 1928 to 1962 over NBC's National Radio Pulpit; of cancer; in Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
They seek him here, they seek him there, but Jesuit Priest Daniel J. Berrigan, 49, has become a sort of Scarlet Pimpernel of the antiwar underground. Last week he popped up-uninvited but welcomed-at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa., to preach peace. The renegade reverend, who last April was supposed to start a 3½-year sentence for destroying draft records, urged the churchgoers to "refuse to pay taxes, and to aid and abet and harbor people like myself so that a solid wall of conscience confronts the warmakers." Before federal agents got wind...
...pastors in liberal Protestant churches have often been more progressive than their congregations, and sometimes positively radical. The Episcopalian, quasi-official magazine of the U.S. Episcopal Church, angered many communicants with its defense of a $40,000 grant to the militant Spanish-American Alianza in New Mexico. A breezy Methodist campus magazine, motive, ran into trouble last year when printers initially refused to set four-letter words in an issue on women's liberation; the next month's issue was pulled from the presses by the United Methodist Church Board of Education for similar language...
...line is heard almost as often as the one about Viet Nam having been a mistake: even the angriest critics of the young concede that "they have a point, they have some valid criticisms." The Methodist minister in the group speaks up for the young, for their idealism, for the need to hear them. So does the Republican state representative. Yet tolerance of radical youth is distinctly a minority position. One civic leader observes: "Well, maybe we do need something of the police state; maybe we do need a little repression." The young radicals, in the words of a woman...
Several of the new churchmen-politicians are one-issue candidates. George McClain, 31. a maverick Methodist minister, whose liberalism on political and religious issues led to a break with his congregation, now heads Shalom House, an ecumenical group on New York's Staten Island. "The peace issue is the central core of my campaign," he says. "It is a symbol against the direction we fear the country is taking." Father Stephen Vesbit, 33. of Grand Rapids, Mich., who is scheduled to announce his candidacy next week, has the same motive in running against House Minority Leader Gerald Ford...