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...influence. One problem is that college-educated Negroes, as they gain in affluence, tend to abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle for equality-and have allowed the movement to fall into militant secular hands. Like many white churches, Negro congregations have found...
...Boston chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference will hold a meeting at 8 p.m. Friday night at the Union Methodist Church in Boston (corner of Columbus and West Newton Streets). Bernard Lafayette, national coordinator of SCLC, will talk about the Poor Peoples' March on Washington...
...Methodist Theologian Van Harvey suggests that the church should not be "a place where men come to be more pious. The church is a place of edification, where one comes to learn to be an honest-to-God person living in dialogue with others." Despite all the yearning for spirituality that may exist in the average American church, it is questionable how many churchgoers can and do live up to this ideal. The stratified irrelevance of the established parish, whether Catholic or Protestant, is a major reason for the growth of what Episcopal Chaplain Malcolm Boyd has dubbed "the underground...
State Street Methodist Church Camden...
Honeywell Hymns. Other faiths are also satisfied computer customers. The Methodist Church utilizes electronic data processing to keep tabs on its 37,600 U.S. parishes. This spring the Southern Baptist Convention plans to install a Honeywell 1200 computer in its Nashville headquarters. Among other chores, the machine will help design a new Sunday-school curriculum -including hymns-to be offered the Convention's 34,000 churches. Eventually, a Sunday-school superintendent will send in a questionnaire giving a profile of his students-and back will come a customized curriculum tailored to his church's individual needs...