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...churchmen are enamored of the present passion for radical pronouncement. In a new book called Who Speaks for the Church? (Abingdon Press), Methodist Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey offers a thoughtful critique of the trend to neglect basic ethical ana ysis in favor of particular pronouncements on policy. No fundamentalist, Ramsey is a professor of ethics at Princeton and an ecumenical-minded writer on contemporary Christian problems. Nonetheless, he contends that the "social action curia" of the World and National Councils of Churches has re duced ecumenical ethics to a partisan political movement...
Before Michigan Governor George Romney undertook a tour of the San Francisco slums recently, he first stopped for an indoctrination lecture at the Glide Memorial Methodist Church. When a much-liked cop in the city resigned, it was the Glide Foundation that gave him a farewell party-and more than 6,000 persons, ranging from the mayor to a motorcycle gang, showed up to celebrate. Almost any time a San Francisco derelict needs a handout, a prostitute needs an encouraging word, a busted hippie needs a pad, they can count on help from Glide...
Understandably, Glide's unconventional ways have brought the church a large measure of criticism, but its activities are strongly backed by Methodist Bishop Donald Tippett, a member of the foundation's board, and by community leaders such as Willie Brown, San Francisco's first Negro representative in the California state assembly. Durham's main defense of Glide's missionary ways is that they work, and that the church is loved and respected by thousands of deviates and dropouts who otherwise have nothing but contempt for organized religion. "God says...
...Negro would have excited little interest - unless someone informed the passer-by that Ines Perez the 5-ft. 4-in., 149-lb. Mexican passer and Jerry Levias, the 5-ft. 10-in., 175-Ib. Negro receiver, were not junior high schoolers at all. They were members of the Southern Methodist University varsity. The reaction to that news might well have been utter disbelief...
...S.M.U. on the A. & M. six, and only four seconds left, Levias ran a "curlin" pattern that he and Perez had practiced "about 1,000 iines" last summer. He sprinted into he end zone, jumped higher than two defenders, looked back-and there was he ball. Final score: Southern Methodist 20, Texas...