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...function of straitened budgets and a kind of cultural recoil from the principles of Johnson's Great Society. The black middle class has grown and in many ways prospered, and yet the black underclass has hardened into a cruel permanence. Says Charles Stith, pastor of Boston's Union United Methodist Church and a highly regarded black activist: "Martin Luther King fought for our rights to ride in the front of the bus. But folks still can't afford to ride the front of the airplane. This isn't a civil rights issue. We've dealt with that. The crisis...
Issues relating to sex -- and sexism -- also shook the United Methodist Church last week. In Houston 48 conservative pastors issued a protest against moves to make the church more accepting of homosexual behavior and to expunge supposedly sexist references to the Trinity in worship. Replacing the phrase "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" with such feminist formulations as "Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer," they charged, defies both Scripture and tradition. The caucus attacked a recent proposal by the national staff to drop a formal prohibition against "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals" in the clergy. Both issues promise to cause a fight...
Harvard (now 4-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) defeated the University of Kansas Friday by a 86-54 margin, but fell Saturday in the tourney semifinal to the University of Arizona, 76-64. In yesterday's third-place meet, the Crimson soundly defeated Southern Methodist by a score...
...picking a fight with Brown, the city chose an unusual case. The daughter of New Jersey factory workers, Brown grew up in a loving family, according to a sister who asked not to be identified. Their father was ordained as a Methodist minister. "We were raised to have middle-class values," the sister said. "The judge and the civil liberties lawyers say that her life-style is O.K. Given what Joyce once was, given what we want Joyce to be again, that is definitely not O.K.! To sleep and defecate on the street . . . Is that what people are reduced...
Every year American farmers discard millions of pounds of potatoes that are too unattractive to send to market. Why can't this otherwise good food be distributed to the needy? That's what Ken Horne, 42, and Ray Buchanan, 40, asked themselves in 1983. The two Methodist ministers began to collect unsold potatoes from local farmers and distribute them to food centers. Since then, the Potato Project has sprouted in 47 states and has shipped a total of 56 million lbs. of spuds (the equivalent of 165 million servings) to 250 anti- hunger agencies...