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Some years ago, Sharp, though a Methodist, became a benefactor of the Jesuit school and was named a "Founder" of the Society of Jesus. He was the only American Protestant ever to receive that honor. Beginning in 1967, he conducted a complex series of financial transactions with the school, transferring large sums of money and blocks of stock between the institution, his business enterprises and himself personally...
...loud outcries of protest were skillfully muted by Russell's careful, thorough conduct of committee hearings on the incident. Later, as the Senate's foremost spokesman on military affairs, Russell championed anti-ballistic missiles, a strong Navy and new manned bombers for the Air Force. A devout Methodist who had been religiously raised-Russell had read the Bible through twice before reaching adulthood-he once insisted that if nuclear warfare ever reduced the world to Adam and Eve again, he wanted the couple to be American...
...minister writing religious news for the secular press. New York Times Religion Editor Edward B. Fiske is an ordained United Presbyterian minister, although he does not advertise the fact. James Bowman of the Chicago Daily News was a Jesuit priest; Roy Larson of the Chicago Sun-Times was a Methodist minister. William Wineke of the Madison, Wis., State Journal was even specifically ordained by the United Church of Christ to the vocation of religious reporting. Many of the best laymen writing religion are personally devout. A.P.'s George Cornell and U.P.I.'s Louis Cassels are practicing Episcopalians...
...Army is on the defensive, and nowhere more seriously-or ironically-than in its home country of Great Britain. General William Booth, its founder, was a rebel-a onetime pawnbroker's apprentice and Methodist preacher who abandoned the class-conscious churches of his day to preach salvation in the desolate slums of Victorian England. His "church" was a revolutionary religious body-a consciously designed "army" complete with uniforms and "Articles of War," dedicated to feeding and caring for the poor, exposing social injustice and lobbying for reform legislation. Now, a century later, the organization itself is under fire...
...Growth Lab had in common was their need for the giant-size box of Kleenex conveniently placed on a round table littered with coffee cups and cigarette butts. Nearly everyone was in tears at least once during the emotion-charged weekend encounter in the basement activities room of the Methodist Church of the Redeemer in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and two of the women wept almost continuously. Otherwise, we represented a diverse group: a married couple, an internal revenue employee, a few housewives, a physical-ed instructor, a secretary, a lawyer, a college student, and a commercial artist with...