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Last week in Iowa City the university celebrated the 25th anniversary of its experiment in "cooperation without compromise." A mixed group of religious leaders came to praise the school's work. Among them: Davenport's Roman Catholic Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, Des Moines' Methodist Bishop Charles W. Brashares, Des Moines' Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer. They just missed a chance to watch a typical example of cooperation in action. Fortnight before, a young Southern Baptist minister, the Rev. Kenneth P. Berg, had passed his oral examination for his Ph. D. in religion. His examiners, who learnedly discussed...
...church is primarily a religious agency." Because Morse and other Presbyterians believed in keeping all church social-action agencies subject to official church control, the Presbyterians did not run afoul of some of the embarrassing situations that occurred in other denominations, e.g., the left-wing crusading of the unofficial Methodist Federation for Social Action (TIME...
Coming to Harvard as an assistant professor in 1946, Baker was promoted to associate three years later. He received his A.B. from Southern Methodist in 1935, and a Ph.D. from Harvard...
Dick was born in the windswept town of Winder (rhymes with binder) in the rolling, blood-red Georgia hills 52 miles northeast of Atlanta. With twelve brothers & sisters, he grew up in a stern, religious home. Father was a Presbyterian, mother a Methodist, and the full text of the Bible had been read aloud in the home twice before Dick was 13. Justice was dealt with a peachtree switch and a leather strap, and Dick still remembers the time his mother whipped him "until the blood came...
...Both John Wesley and his brother Charles the co-founder of Methodism, were ordained a; Anglican priests. When John began to ordain ne Methodist ministers himself, Charles, who wanted only to reform the Church of England from within, strongly opposed him. Charles was such a thoroughgoing Anglican that, before he died, he announced his refusal to be buried in his Methodist brother's churchyard...