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...churches, the problem is that the more they try to bring their beliefs in line with this relativistic criterion, the more they run afoul of fundamental traditions and become involved in a moral tug of war with their conservative laymen. The controversy that may face the 10.8 millionmember United" Methodist Church is typical. Last month its Committee on Family Life issued a resolution implicitly condoning sex for single persons, homosexuals, and those living in unspecified "other styles of interpersonal relationship." The resolution cuts directly across the church's venerable Social Creed, which states that "sexual intercourse outside the bonds...
...WORLD FUND, launched last summer by two national officers of the United Methodist Church, avoids investing in any company on the Pentagon's list of the 100 largest U.S. defense contractors, or in any firm that counts on defense-related products or services for more than 5% of its sales. The churchmen have found this a difficult mandate to observe. They wanted to invest in Johnson & Johnson Co., which sells medical supplies to the military, but the SEC ruled that the company is a defense contractor as defined in the Pax World prospectus...
...Woodvale Methodist Church...
Typically, business schools teach management as a science and, through case-method paper exercises, train their students to fit into large corporations. Southern Methodist University in Dallas, however, wants to turn out not organization men but wheeler-dealers in the Texas style of Computer Centimillionaire H. Ross Perot and Financier John D. Murchison, both S.M.U. trustees. So the students are learning primarily by becoming small-scale entrepreneurs while they are still undergraduates...
...life that tends to cause heart attacks? In a land afflicted with high-cholesterol diets and high-pressure lives, at any rate, heart attacks are a major cause of death. So it is only natural that the world's two leading temples of heart surgery should be American: Methodist Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute, both in Houston. Each of those imposing centers is largely the work of one man. Dr. Michael DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28, 1965), son of a Lebanese immigrant, built Methodist to greatness; Dr. Denton Cooley, his onetime protégé turned bitter rival...