Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reductionist Pike's case reduces to this: the question is not whether he is right or wrong, but whether he is Episcopalian. His non-transcendent, non-omnipotent, non-Trinitarian, nonChristian, nonBiblical god does not represent a new description of the Christian God, but a new god. As long as he holds such beliefs as a member of a Christian church, he shows himself to be without the character to stand for what he believes without the support of those whom his robes deceive...
...would find it easy to say kind words for Pike if he left the church...
...that Bishop Pike received a degree from Union Theological Seminary for presenting a book he had written with Dr. Norman Pittenger, The Faith of the Church...
Actually, Bishop Pike did all the academic work expected for that degree. He brought 30 points of credit from Virginia Theological Seminary and ten points from Yale Law School. At Union, he took eight hours of work at General Theological Seminary, which Union also accepted. Contrary to your report, he took most of his work in the basic theological disciplines. He worked under both Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, and I remember his brilliant work in a seminar in Christian Ethics. The book was offered as a thesis and was allowed only two credits. JOHN C. BENNETT President...
After Kentucky's legislature author ized a 10% hike in school taxes, the Pike County school board duly upped its budget, then sought the necessary majority approval from the eight-magistrate fiscal court. Never, cried Magistrates Taylor Justice, Foster Bentley, Burbage Prater and Darwin Newsome. Because the tax rise exempts utilities from paying more property taxes than they already do, charged the magis trates, the school board actually was seeking an "illegal" 20.8% hike for ordinary citizens...