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...British Quakers held that "homosexual affection can be as selfless as heterosexual affection" and therefore is not necessarily a sin. A surprising number of Protestant churchmen accept this idea. Most will still assert that homosexuality is an offense against God and man, but usually with qualifications. Says Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy: "The Lord made man and woman, and this implies a sexual relationship and sexual harmony which is in the center of nature." He is echoed by Harvard Divinity School's Harvey Cox, who, from a theological viewpoint, sees "the man-woman relationship as a model...
...Methodist Church...
...local schoolteacher, Younge was a so-so student who preferred to make his mark as an energetic civil rights organizer. He helped run a Negro boycott of local markets, led a group that attempted to integrate the municipal swimming pool and Tuskegee's all-white First Methodist Church. Last week, just before his death, he spent hours in the downtown Macon County Courthouse helping some 40 Negro would-be voters to register. That night, when he went to nearby Wilson's Standard Oil service station to buy gas and use the men's room, he got into...
...place of equality with the preached word. The decrees of the Vatican Council have already removed some Protestant objections to Catholic worship and encourage greater study and use of Scripture by laymen and priests alike. Last week, three English clergymen-an Anglican, a Roman Catholic and a Methodist-jointly recommended still another change in worship that could help bring divided Christianity closer together. They proposed that their churches draw up a common table of Bible lessons, which would be read by all churches on Sundays. With that, they declared, "we should surely be hastening the day when once again...
Close to Billy. The participants belonged to the 17-year-old Evangelical Theological Society, whose 750 members are divided about equally between mainstream Protestants and adherents of such sects as the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Speaking for an intellectual conservatism within U.S. Protestantism, Evangelicals shun the label-and company-of fundamentalists who would insist that every comma in the Bible is divinely inspired, stand closest theologically to Billy Graham. The leading Evangelical theologians include Dr. Carl Henry, editor of Christianity Today, Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary, and Dean Kenneth S. Kantzer of the Trinity Evangelical School at Deerfield...