Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McPhee's mission was to do what no one else had done about the New York World's Fair. It had been previewed, opened, featured, highlighted and was even beginning to produce its own cliches. But there had been no intensive critique of it in the sense that, say, a theater critic reviews a play. McPhee and Researcher Nancy Gay Faber went to and from Flushing Meadow by car, subway, train and hydrofoil, walked and rode through the grounds, stood in the longest lines, went to literally every pavilion, park and exhibit. One day McPhee took...
...many young Protestant ministers, Christianity's newest and most challenging frontier is a mission to city slums-a proposition that often works out as putting aside the preaching of the Gospel for the sake of social work. To William Stringfellow, a Harvard-trained lawyer and Episcopal lay theologian, such ideas are anathema. In a newly published book called My People Is the Enemy (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, $3.95), he labels the theory for what it is: sectarianism, "no less than it is where a church is established on grounds of class or race or language or any other secular criteria...
Gospel for the Hungry? But important as the urban mission is, Stringfellow writes, it is just one of many frontiers for the church-no more or less important than the university, the suburb or the technology lab. And on every frontier, the church faces the danger of conforming to the world "by accommodating the message and mission to the particular society in which the church happens to be, in the slums and in the suburbs, instead of honoring the integrity of the Gospel for all societies and for all sorts and conditions of men in all times and places...
...example, saw the publication of a Catholic textbook survey by scholars at Jesuit-run St. Louis University that listed a number of pejorative references to Jews (and Protestants)-and urged textbook writers to take greater care in discussing other faiths. The Lutheran World Federation's Commission on World Mission at a consultation in Denmark declared that anti-Semitism is "a demonic form of rebellion against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew, directed upon his people." And in Florence, European representatives of an international society for Christian-Jewish cooperation met to discuss...
...Commemorating the formation of the nation's first Baptist mission society in 1814. Also present: the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, the North American Baptist General Conference, the Baptist Federation of Canada, and two Negro churches: the National Baptist Convention of America and National Baptist Convention, U.S.A...