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...instead concentrate on making contact with the unchurched who work at the center or in nearby factories and offices. The value of this "ministry of listening," Kelly hopes, is that "we will be hearing about things that people won't say in a church meeting or to their pastor. We will be talking to people who have become disenchanted with the church." Desk Clerks & Beats. The daily routine of the United Church's other listening ministers is far removed from that of most clerics. In Las Vegas, the Rev. Richard Mawson is a full-time desk clerk...
From Rugby to Royalties. Moral Re-Armer Howard could hardly be more unlike Buchman, who was a mild-mannered rural pastor and Y.M.C.A. worker until he founded the Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model...
Pillow Fees. Pastor Karsten had his facts entirely straight. Every major U.S. military installation in South Korea is ringed by villages occupied by camp followers who make their living on G.I. largesse. As one inhabitant of a "G.I. town" put it: "We benefit much from the G.I.s stationed here, but thank God they are not Christians. If they were, we would starve...
...dialogue, modeled loosely on the German Protestant Kirchenwoche, or church week, was organized by Lutheran Pastor Arnold Mickelson "to get people to talk about their problems and their faith, to meet the community outside the church and discuss issues the public wants to talk about." A special interfaith committee scheduled more than 200 talk-stirring events, most of them under secular auspices, while clergymen stayed discreetly in the background. The dialogue was supported by nearly all local churches and service clubs...
...Paul Jones, a Methodist, points out that "Mary stands at the very inception of Christian revelation as sign and representative of the human context in which the Christ-event is received, then and now." In the interdenominational Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Harvard's Heiko Oberman, a Dutch Reformed pastor, warns Protestants against a totally negative "Marian minimalism." He argues that there is Scriptural warrant for revering Mary as "the elect instrument of God's work of redemption" and as "the prototype of the faithful...