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BISHOP JOHN WESLEY LORD The Methodist Church The Washington Area Washington...
...also is the chaplain's method of ministering to it. Since U.S. troops are so widely scattered, chaplains have be come airborne circuit riders. "It's now a matter of riding helicopters and going where the troops are," says Major General Charles E. Brown, a Methodist minister who is the Army's top chaplain. "We used to hold three or four or maybe ten services a week. Now our chaplains are saying services in the combat area to at least ten and sometimes as many as 50 separate detachments of soldiers...
...definite religious background. Explanations of the lack of interest seem to vary with the denomination but have little to do with the state of the United Ministry. "I think the religious doubts start in high school, long before students get here," speculates the Rev. Rene O. Bideaux of the Methodist Church, "They have them when they get off the bus." The Rev. Ernst E. Klein of the Baptist Church claims that "many students will not give us a chance because they are running from the Baptist Church in Pumpkin Corners. Iowa...
...capital, where politics is everyone's chief obsession, Davis' foot-dragging has turned into news because he is the minister who currently lays claim to the unofficial title of "the President's pastor."* Lyndon Johnson, though he sometimes attends services at Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist churches, goes most often to National City, the "national church" of his denomination, the Disciples of Christ. Last week Davis proudly made the President an "honorary elder...
...Marks for Piety. The objectivity of the religion courses sometimes startles students, who frequently sign up to have their faith reinforced, not scrutinized. At Michigan State Dr. Robert T. Anderson, a conservative Methodist theologian, begins Religion 220 by telling his students: "The Bible is the greatest collection of mythology in the history of Western civilization." Students who were fundamentalists in September frequently are demythologizers by January. Some students who have no faith take the courses because they fill a genuine lack in their experience. Seven of 14 who took one Dartmouth class on Kierkegaard billed themselves as agnostics. Students...