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Before deciding that he wanted to sing opera, Milnes had ambitions to be a doctor. His father was a Methodist minister, his mother the musical director of the local Congregational church. As a boy, Sherrill milked cows and baled hay on the family farm, but also found time to study voice, violin, piano, viola and tuba. Later he took a pre-med course at Iowa's Drake University, where voice teachers urged him to take up singing as a full-time career. Commercials beefed up his cash balance while he sang with Boris Goldovsky's Opera Company...
...During his pre-Easter audience, the Pope singled out such "ignoble leftovers from the past" as racist intransigence and discrimination. Most other churches are expected to follow the lead of the Catholics. The Anglican bishop of Salisbury has praised the Catholics' courage, and the African head of the Methodist church, Andrew Ndhela, came out in unqualified support. He is chairman of the Christian Council of Rhodesia, whose 16 denominations plan to meet on April 26 to decide what action to take...
...American Baptist Convention, in which black members account for about one-sixth of the 1,500,000 total, last year elected Los Angeles Pastor Thomas Kilgore as its first black president. In the United Methodist Church, the 500,000 black members account for less than 5% of the total; until 1968 most were segregated in a separate Negro jurisdiction. Now six black bishops (out of 45 in the United Methodist Church) head integrated Episcopal areas, and even in the South, black district superintendents are being appointed...
...black denominations, they command a mighty membership: 10.2 million in the four black Baptist conventions, 2,600,000 in the three major black Methodist churches, probably more than 1,500,000 in smaller groups and store-front churches. The three black Methodist denominations are considering joining the giant Consultation on Church Union (TIME, March 2). Though blacks will make up less than one-sixth of the potential membership of the superchurch, black delegates at COCU's annual meeting last month won a guarantee that each presiding bishop of the new church must have a "different racial background" from...
...nine, in order of size: 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 Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern), the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church...