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...past, such sticky problems have been the task of other agencies. Those familiar with recent ecumenical trends assume that Stockwell, who was a Methodist missionary to Uruguay when political "liberation" theology first arose there, wants to get C.W.S. involved in direct political and intelligence work overseas, including support for armed revolutionaries, if necessary. Stockwell denies this. As for "conscientization," he thinks that C.W.S. should consider going beyond standard promotion of its work and also expose grass-roots Protestants to "liberation" thinking...
...evangelist in the world's history." Others included United Church of Christ Minister James Gustaf son, professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, whose quiet work, which insists on the importance of ethical rules, "will influence people in the pews"; Rhodesia's black Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, a steady voice for racial equality "whom Rhodesia's black people have learned to trust"; and David Du Plessis, globetrotting apostle of the fast-spreading, transdenominational Pentecostal movement. The editors reserved some of their highest praise for German Theologian Jürgen Moltmann, a Reformed thinker...
...politics because he figured it was the way "to get things done." From the state legislature he became secretary of state in 1968, then suffered a setback in 1972 when he lost his bid for Governor. "Jay" is now president of West Virginia Wesleyan College, a small, coeducational Methodist school, and thinking of running for Governor again in 1976. "I am driven to, attracted by, I love public life," says Jay. "Look at the alternatives. Business...
...James W. McCord Jr., 50, whose letter to Judge John Sirica burst the Watergate dam, has told friends that sermons in suburban Washington's Fourth Presbyterian Church had a powerful impact on his decisions that winter. On the first Sunday of January 1973, McCord, a Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...
Senator Hughes is probably Coe's most devoted convert. Hughes' long spiritual odyssey carried him from Alcoholics Anonymous and Methodist Sunday-school teaching to the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, a group of ministers and laymen who explore psychic phenomena. "I was looking for Christ," Hughes recalls. "I wanted miracles today. I wanted to believe in eternal life. My prayer life was constant, and I read the Scriptures, but what I was seeking I didn't find." Then in 1969 he met Coe, "a man who lived, believed and practiced the Scriptures. So, in prayer, Christ gradually came alive...