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Staggered Sabbath. The Rev. William Steel, pastor of seven-year-old Woodland Hills Methodist Church in a suburb of Los Angeles, also has a well-to-do congregation: professional men, business executives and aerospace technicians and their families. Instead of going into debt to build a bigger church for the rapidly growing congregation, Woodland Hills has tried a "staggered Sabbath," with services on weekday nights. Steel encourages parishioners to argue back after sermons, while trying to instill in them the need for a Christian response to what he calls "the challenge of the real...
...dance theater, a theater, and an art gallery that was one of the first to display pop and happenings. Some of this esthetic interest has spilled over into the worship at Judson Memorial, most of whose 140 parishioners are not bearded beats but middle-class Manhattanites. Encouraged by Pastor Howard Moody, a Baptist, the congregants composed their own Thanksgiving Day jazz service, and one Ash Wednesday service featured a dancer who, to the accompaniment of Negro blues, doused himself in paint as a sign of mortification. Judson's theology, sums up Assistant Minister Al Carmines, a Methodist, is simple...
...inviting Catholic contributors to explain the church's views on issues that caused interfaith tensions. One article two years ago by Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School suggested that it was time for Protestants to re-examine their attitude of total opposition to premarital sex. Another, by Pastor Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, proposed a redefinition of obscenity: the really filthy word, he suggested, was not a four-letter Saxonism for sex but the word "nigger" shouted by an Alabama...
...detail not as housekeeping but as a means of achieving the church's mission. Though he lacks Visser 't Hooft's skill in languages, Blake seems strongly qualified for the job: he was a mission ary teacher in India, spent 19 years as a preacher and pastor, served a term (1954-57) as president of the National Council of Churches. In U.S. ecumenical circles, he is famed as author of the "Blake proposal" to unite his own Presbyterians with Methodists, Episcopalians and three other denominations in a vast Protestant superchurch...
...Richard E. Mumma, Presbyterian University pastor for the Harvard community, was active in organizing the group and is on its steering committee...