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...appreciative chuckle over your story on Senator Kennedy [who met with 51 Methodist bishops and answered questions on his Roman Catholicism-April 27]. But regret that this feature of a semiannual meeting of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church was described as an "odd inquisition." Panel quizzes (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) regularly bring out sharper interrogation via TV networks. How many show producers courteously furnish the "quizzed" with an advance list of questions? Bishop Oxnam's innovation sounds like an intelligent and highly effective method of gaining firsthand information on matters of real...
...Tarheel vigor was at work last week from Kitty Hawk to Cherokee, from missile plant to church pulpit, reshaping a landscape once principally adorned by loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center...
...Africa, India and Southeast Asia, nationalism has forced the Christian churches to speed up the process of turning control over to native churchmen. Just back from a two-month tour of African missions, Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles said last week that the whole future of Christianity in that part of the world depends on the speed and success of the handover. "We have failed in that we have tried to keep too much control by running 'white missions,' " said Kennedy. "We need to train more natives so that the missions can become more...
This odd inquisition was set up by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 67, articulate firebrand of his church's liberal wing. Although the bishops talked with Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Christian Church), with Quaker-born (Presbyterian-attending) Richard Nixon, and Congregationalist (Methodist-attending) Hubert Humphrey, only Candidate Kennedy was quizzed on the church-and-state issues...
...that's Daniel, going into the lions' den," cracked a Washington reporter one warm afternoon last week. The Daniel: shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and front-running candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. The lions: the 51-man Council of Methodist Bishops (membership: 10 million), on a long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism...