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These white-led groups have all contributed to Nashville's transition. But if any one person deserves major credit it is, by general agreement, a Negro: the Rev. Kelly Miller Smith, 40, hulking (6 ft. 1 in., 200 lbs.) pastor of Nashville's First Baptist Church. Says a Nashville merchant with whom Smith successfully negotiated a settlement of Nashville's lunch-counter sit-in strikes: "The mayor didn't have anything to do with it. The ministers didn't have anything to do with it. The community relations people didn't have anything...
Minister Blake's first post was as assistant pastor of Manhattan's now demolished Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, where, even the sexton told him he "ought to shout more." He decided that he was "a better popularizer than a scholar," and should give up a hankering he had for seminary teaching. He got a call to Albany's First Presbyterian Church, went on five years later to the Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, Calif., where he stayed for eleven years before the General Assembly elected him Stated Clerk...
...back seat of his black limousine, Richard Cardinal Gushing, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, riffled through the newspaper as the car rolled through the Massachusetts countryside. He was on his way to dedicate the first Catholic church in the town of Dover-red brick St. Philomena's, which Pastor Joseph J. Boyle and the members of his three-year-old parish had just completed. Suddenly a news item riveted Cardinal Cushing's attention: the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites had stricken St. Philomena, "the virgin martyr," from the roster of saints. For the cardinal...
According to Christian Century Associate Editor Martin Marty, pastor of Chicago's suburban Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit at Elk Grove Village: "Each of Dr. Bonnell's points can be demonstrated separately, but if the Protestant hope for a larger place in the sun is based on these indicators, it just isn't in the deck. For one thing, the population explosion goes against it; most of the children being born into the world are not and never will be Christian. The population's mobility goes against it; a mobile Protestant population...
America's new form of Christianity is what Episcopalian Winter calls the "organization church"-the church that is centered not in its creed, or its liturgy, or its pastor, but in activities and organizations ranging from nursery schools to Softball teams. And the organization church has followed the organization man to the suburbs-or, rather, pursued him. "Denominational leaders have watched the new residential areas surrounding the central cities with greedy eyes. These are largely middle-and upper-class residential areas; they have adequate resources for constructing church buildings; their residents are responsive to religious programs; in fact, denominational...