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...prepared to start bargaining again, no talks have been scheduled, and the ugly mood that has marked previous strikes seems to be on the rise. Just the word of the breakdown in negotiations last week sparked wildcat strikes by 8,000 miners in the East and Midwest. As Norvel Wagner, a U.M.W. field representative in West Virginia, put it, "It's itchy feet...
...worth every cent we get," but also that the grants help him attract competent scholars to strengthen a generally mediocre faculty. Even Baptist opposition is softening. Such Baptist schools as Baylor, Wake Forest and Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe as long as it's feasible-but we don't plan to commit academic suicide...
...morning and one at night); there was a giant picnic for 2,000 church members at noon, and at 3 p.m. there was a going-away party with an air-conditioned Buick as the main gift. Object of all the attention: Broadway Church's personable pastor-Matt Norvel Young, 41, an expansive man in an expanding church...
Reasoning Approach. When Norvel Young went to Lubbock 13 years ago, there were five Churches of Christ in the city (pop. 139,000) with a total membership of about 1,300. Today there are 14 churches with 7,000 members (children under twelve not counted). And the biggest of these-the biggest Church of Christ in the world-is 1,800-member Broadway. Part of the credit for this growth goes to Lubbock, but much of it goes to Norvel Young's friendly, reasoning approach...
...Churches of Christ, as Norvel Young likes to point out, are not a denomination at all. Their essence "is that we want to restore worship to the simple worship as set forth in the New Testament. We teach from the Bible, not from printed interpretations of it. Each individual interprets the Bible for himself. Anybody can start a church, in his home or wherever; he has to get permission from no one. We believe in just being Christians...