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Staggered Sabbath. The Rev. William Steel, pastor of seven-year-old Woodland Hills Methodist Church in a suburb of Los Angeles, also has a well-to-do congregation: professional men, business executives and aerospace technicians and their families. Instead of going into debt to build a bigger church for the rapidly growing congregation, Woodland Hills has tried a "staggered Sabbath," with services on weekday nights. Steel encourages parishioners to argue back after sermons, while trying to instill in them the need for a Christian response to what he calls "the challenge of the real...
...Pastor Howard Moody, a Baptist, the congregants composed their own Thanksgiving Day jazz service, and one Ash Wednesday service featured a dancer who, to the accompaniment of Negro blues, doused himself in paint as a sign of mortification. Judson's theology, sums up Assistant Minister Al Carmines, a Methodist, is simple: "What is God about? God is about people and their needs...
Many scholars, moreover, think that ecumenical experimentation has just begun. Dr. Lynn Leavenworth, director of theological education for the American Baptists, last November proposed a consolidation of Protestant-and even Catholic-seminary resources. "It makes no sense," he said, "to have Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian seminaries. I am looking for the day when seminary graduates will no longer be headed for this or that church's work...
...taken a less active role in the magazine in recent years, eventually will step down. Since 1953 he has shared the title of editor with President John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary, while day-to-day operations are handled by Managing Editor Wayne Cowan, 38, a former Methodist missionary in Japan...
...health had been declining in recent years, and just before Christmas he went to Houston's Methodist Hospital, where Dr. Michael DeBakey performed extensive cardiovascular surgery. While he was convalescing at his home in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Rose caught a cold, which rapidly developed into fatal lobar pneumonia...