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...Consultation on Church Union progresses, involving the formation of one church out of the Episcopal Church, the Disciples, the Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, the United Presbyterian Church, and others, it will probably become necessary to draft a tenth Confession or even to reorganize the function and use of the Book as a whole...
While theologians like to be popular, some worry because every new ecumenical venture invariably seeks out the same familiar names. Methodist Albert Outler of Dallas, who was an observer at the Vatican Council, is the automatic choice of any new Catholic-sponsored organization. Jesuit John Courtney Murray ranks equally high in Protestant esteem. So great is their concern for church unity that these ecumenists are generally reluctant to turn down any serious new offer-and the result is still another amiable interlocking directorate. "It is the thing to do," says one popular Protestant theologian. "If you say no too often...
...ranch-style home is equipped with a pole-vaulting rig, and Richards claims he can still clear his best competition height of 15 ft. 6 in. He also has other interests. He owns an 8,000-acre ranch in Colorado and a film studio-an abandoned Methodist church-in La Verne...
...SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY...
...personal collection of French moderns may contain as many as 44 fakes (TIME, May 19). But this has not kept Meadows from plunging again. Last week he announced that he had bought 13 more paintings, mainly by Spanish masters, valued at $2,000,000 and destined for Southern Methodist University. This time when Meadows went to market, however, it was with a difference. Rather than put his trust in itinerant art dealers, he bought from Manhattan's top galleries. And to advise him he had at his elbow Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Director Merrill C. Rueppel. Said Meadows...