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...publications of the Methodist Church's Board of Education run mostly to sober catechisms, Sunday-school texts, and gentle lives of Jesus for six-year-olds. Standing out in this array like a miniskirt at a church social is motive, a monthly magazine aimed at Christian college students in general and Methodist ones in particular. As most of its 40,000 youthful readers will affirm, motive is probably the most provocatively adventurous church publication in the U.S. today...
...Methodists will soon have more opportunity to find out what motive is all about. This month the magazine became the official organ of the interdenominational University Christian Movement, although the Methodist Church will continue to provide a large part of its $125,000 annual budget. Actually, the new sponsorship will make no difference in motive's outlook, since it was never very parochial to begin with. In its 25 years of publication, motive has consistently taken the stand that its college readers were adults and has given them adult, avant-garde fare. Never preachy in tone, the magazine...
Pauper's Pay. In doing so, motive has gained an enviable record for pioneering. It was one of the first church journals to accept and define civil rights as a theological problem. Although Methodist morality frowns on premarital sex, motive has dealt sensitively and sympathetically with student difficulties related to the problem. Such is the magazine's reputation for intellectual openness that theologians of the stature of Thomas Merton, Joseph Sittler and Albert Outler have frequently contributed some of their freshest thoughts to its pages, although $50 is maximum pay for an article...
...Illinois lost, 26-7, to Southern Methodist. Minnesota got shut out by Missouri, 24-0. Indiana was embarrassed, 20-10, by little Miami of Ohio. Oh, well, shrugged Midwestern football fans, accidents will happen. But then Michigan's No. 7-ranked Wolverines were upset, 21-7, by unranked North Carolina, and Washington - a team that had been blanked 10-0 by the Air Force Academy a week before - rolled up 413 yds. on the ground to beat Ohio State, 38-22. Even before last Saturday's game, when Nebraska smashed Wisconsin, 31-3, the Chicago Daily News asked...
After studying music at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Lillian Smith taught for three years in a Methodist missionary school in China, returning to take over Laurel Falls Camp when her father died. Southern bluebloods scrambled to send her their daughters, and she used earnings from the camp to launch a magazine on Southern affairs, which had burgeoned to 100 pages with a subscription list of more than 10,000 when she abandoned it in 1946 for full-time writing. She followed Strange Fruit with Killers of the Dream (1949) and The Journey (1954), non-fiction works in which...