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Church of the Future. Apman thinks that a majority of his parishioners will follow him into the merger, since they, like millions of other U.S. Protestants, are generally indifferent to the old theological quarrels of their churches. In many communities, Lutherans have no qualms about attending Methodist, Presbyterian or Episcopal services when a church of their own is not available. Moreover, Apman is already thinking ahead to a possible union of the eleven other churches in the Newport area into three larger, united congregations, each with a team of four ministers who could specialize in youth work, counseling, administration...
...shaped and sometimes compromised to gain the approval of disparate men-Italian country bishops who have seldom seen Protestants, and Dutch prelates who pray with them almost daily; U.S. cardinals whose most pressing concern is a multimillion-dollar building fund, and Asian missionaries whose church is a Quonset hut. Methodist Observer Albert C. Outler of Texas says that "several of the decrees and declarations are substandard; several are no better than mediocre." One of the worst is a decree on mass communications which implies the right of governments to censor the press; hardly better is the declaration On Christian Education...
Rickey not only changed the strategy of baseball management; he helped change the very tone of the game. In the early 1900s baseball was dominated by rowdies and gamblers. Rickey, a strict Methodist who never drank or swore (his strongest epithet was "Judas Priest!") and refused all his life to attend ball games on Sunday, gave respectability to the sport. He lectured his players endlessly on strength of character and nobility of purpose. "Luck," he liked to tell them, "is the residue of design." He popularized "the Knothole Gang" and Ladies' Day-designed to attract a proper citizenry...
Atwood recently won high praise from his faculty when he came to the defense of Emory's controversial Theologian Thomas Altizer, whose death-of-God doctrine outraged Emory's Methodist-dominated trustees. Insisted Presbyterian Atwood about Altizer: "He feels he had an idea worth discussing. He has the right to do so." At the same time, Atwood finds certain qualities in his students that he feels non-Southern schools should envy. "These kids are not bearded ruffians and sloppy kids," he says. "They write thank-you notes after a visit to our house. Now that would never happen...
Reverse Backlash. In Nashville one parishioner canceled a $500 pledge to Calvary Methodist Church after the pastor, the Rev. Sam R. Dodson Jr., led a protest march of ministers against segregation; another layman at once raised his pledge by $500. In Alabama, when one Presbyterian church cut off the minister's car allowance because he had helped out-of-state civil rights demonstrators, a group of laymen within the church formed a committee to make up the difference out of their own pockets. Presbyterian Frank H. Stroup, chief executive of the Philadelphia presbytery, acknowledges opposition to his church...