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...RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS, Lutheran pastor and director of the Center on Religion and Society...
Like many Americans, Reagan has a religious sense that lacks much formal institutional grounding, but nonetheless seems earnest and powerful. Mondale, the pious and principled son of a Methodist pastor, has a temperamental aversion to wearing his faith on his sleeve-but he apparently feels his faith deeply and knows what he believes. What is at issue, or should be, is neither the sincerity nor the righteousness of the two men's beliefs. Rather, the point is their basic difference in outlook, reflected within the electorate, over the proper role of religion in the political realm. If conducted...
...golf fans streamed by to attend the final day of the British Open at the famed old course two blocks away, 130 parishioners gathered last week for Sunday worship at the gray stone Hope Park church in St. Andrews, Scotland. Said Pastor William Henney as the service started: "We give a special welcome to Jim Nelson, who starts a probationary period with us. We wish him a happy time among us." Clergy Candidate Nelson, clad in black gown and clerical collar, showed barely a trace of nervousness as he began his duties by reading the Scripture lessons from Luke...
After graduating from Buenos Aires' Union Theological Seminary in 1950, he studied with renowned Protestant Theologian Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Castro, married and the father of two children, has served as a pastor in Uruguay and Bolivia, and has held several administrative posts, including the presidency of Uruguay's Evangelical Methodist Church. In 1973 he moved to Geneva to become director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He left that post last year to work on a doctorate...
Other patients share Janszen's enthusiasm for CAN. A. Donald Hodges, 52, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Westport, Conn., in recent years has undergone surgery twice for cancer. Thanks to the Corporate Angels, on both occasions he was able to deliver his Sunday-morning sermon and still arrive at Leigh Memorial Hospital in Norfolk by Monday morning. Says Hodges: "I'm impressed by the fact that someone cares and is offering a helping hand." Concurs Harry Kass of Brooklyn, 23, who last April flew on an AT&T company plane from San Francisco to Morristown...