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...Pastor of Revelation since 1961, Shuttlesworth has spiritually satisfied the 1,200-member congregation with his eloquent preaching, but he has annoyed some trustees and deacons by assuming total personal control of the church's finances and administration. Trouble came to a head in July when Shuttlesworth abruptly suspended Revelation's Sunday school superintendent for disobeying his orders. Although he later reinstated the superintendent, a number of church leaders decided that the time had come to have a showdown...
...Cambridge, Mass. After taking part in the Selma-to-Montgomery march, Daniels had gone back to Cambridge to finish the school year, then returned to spend the summer working with the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity in Selma. His companion was Father Richard F. Morrisroe, assistant pastor of Chicago's Saint Columbanus Church, who had gone earlier this month to Birmingham to attend the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention...
Parishioners of Harlem's Fountain Springs Baptist Church invoked an older response to drought. Three times a day, their pastor instructed them, they were all to pray for rain. A less idealistic proposal was offered by Congressman William F. Ryan, a candidate for the Democratic mayoral nomination, who says Wagner should fire his Water Supply Commissioner for not fixing leaks in water mains. Just for emphasis, Ryan rolled up his pants and waded through one gusher in Central Park−he even drank some of the water−but the department said it was nature's water...
...pastor of churches in Milwaukee and Minneapolis for 19 years, Gornitzka in 1963 was forced to move to Palm Desert, Calif., because of a skin ailment. There he discovered that he had a knack for comprehending the problems confided to him by well-to-do people he met at cocktail parties or on the golf course. Gornitzka soon found himself busy helping the friends of friends, eventually organized a full-time ministry around a nonprofit corporation called Direction...
...Jose, Calif., have gone on record as opposing the Confession in its present form. In Seattle, the Rev. David Brittain of Foster-Tukwila Presbyterian Church fears that one-fourth of the city's 30,000 Presbyterians might ultimately bolt because of the new creed. The Rev. Edward Stimson, pastor of Omaha's Dundee Presbyterian Church and leader of the opposition to the Confession at the General Assembly, claims to have received letters of support from 250 ministers...