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...indignities beset such guests as Singer Harry Belafonte, who had brought Mrs. King back from Memphis on his chartered plane, and sat in a front row, as did Black Comedian Dick Gregory. Before the service, Richard Nixon leaned over to whisper hello to Jacqueline Kennedy, black-draped in the pew ahead, and received an icy stare in return. Such soulful spirituals as My Heavenly Father, Watch Over Me and If I Can Help Somebody were rendered so poignantly by Contralto Mary Gurley and Mrs. Jimmie Thomas, a soprano, of the Ebenezer Church Choir that Singer Mahalia Jackson, the misty mistress...
...historic Virginia town restored to Revolutionary-era authenticity by the Rockefeller family, Johnson heard a sermon on Viet Nam instead. "There is rather general consensus that what we are doing in Viet Nam is wrong," lectured Rector Cotesworth Pinckney Lewis as the President sat captive in a front pew that had once been occupied by George Washington. "While pledging our loyalty, we ask humbly...
...Pew on Wheels. Most such churches begin by taking over a drive-in theater on Sunday morning. Minister, choir and organ perch atop the projection booth or a makeshift stage, and the sermon is piped into cars through window speakers. Among the most impressive of several new churches specially built for drive-in congregations are Schuller's Garden Grove Community Church (designed by Richard Neutra) and the glass-walled Trinity Reformed Church in Kent, Wash., which will accommodate up to 300 people in cars parked outside. Both Garden Grove and Trinity Reformed also serve worshipers seated in the nave...
...ground that "the middle of the road means where the road is." A knowledgeable theologian, he feels that such avant-garde Anglicans as Bishop John A. T. Robinson (Honest to God) have gone too far and too fast for the church's faithful. "The ordinary man in the pew," he says, "reminds me of someone who has been ten rounds in the ring with Cassius Clay. He's been faced by the new theology, the new morality, church reunion, liturgical reform. I think the church is in danger of leaving him in the lurch." Sullivan considers...
Organized two years ago, the com mittee has 3,000 financial contributors, including such well-known industrialists as J. Howard Pew, board chairman of Sun Oil, and President Roger Hull of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Although it acknowledges the right of individual ministers to take stands on political-moral issues, the committee strongly objects to the tendency of Presbyterian leaders to issue pronouncements that purport to speak for the church as a whole...