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Last week in Rio de Janeiro, at the general conference of the Methodist Church of Brazil, and in Lima, at the Fourth Latin American Lutheran Conference, two major Protestant groups met to ponder their rapid growth rate (nearly 10% a year) and its portents for the future. As even Roman Catholic churchmen admit, the potential of Protestant expansion is unlimited. There is a strong tendency among the masses of the poor, the educated middle class, and the young to look upon Roman Catholicism as an elderly and often irrelevant institution. Still spiritually hungry, however, many find satisfaction in a simple...
...Chile and Brazil, the Protestants include a surprisingly high proportion of educators, businessmen and government officials. Most often, however, Protestants find their converts among urban workers who may have been baptized as Catholics but never have practiced their faith. Last year, for example, Methodist Pastor Gessé Texeira de Carvalho started a mission in Petropolis, a mountaintop city 27 miles from Rio. He now has 45 converts and 90 people taking instruction. "Baroque statues and gilded altars were all right for their grandfathers," says De Carvalho, "but the Brazilian of today must find a better way to reaffirm his faith...
...annual meeting of the New York Conference of the Methodist Church in Bridgeport last month, Tenor Saxophonist Ed Summerlin, with sextet and chorus, presented the first performance of a new Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, with words by Poet William Robert Miller. Based vaguely on a Christian service described by the 2nd century theologian Hippolytus, the eclectic 14-part liturgy included jazz anthems in fairly conventional "cool" style, ballad-like congregational hymns reminiscent of Kurt Weill, choral passages as modal as a 14th century Mass. Florida-born Ed Summerlin began writing jazz for use in churches six years ago, when...
When the Rev. Robert H. Jonte was a newly ordained Methodist minister in a small Texas town 19 years ago, he got a 2?-a-gal. discount on gasoline from his service station, the wholesale price when he bought household appliances, and an extra item or two free on his food order, courtesy of the local grocer. Jonte is still a minister in a small Texas town, but now he pays full price for nearly everything he buys. "The clergyman's discount," he says, "is completely gone...
MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. 429 pages. Southern Methodist University...