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Pusey will deliver the Baccalaureate Address before the senior class of Harvard. The Baccalaureate Service, which was moved up a day this year in order to increase attendance, will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Memorial Church. Charles P. Price '41, Preacher to the University. will conduct the service...
...reason is that, despite its need to develop educational and agricultural resources, Northern Rhodesia is inherently richer than its two neighbors-thanks to fabulous copper reserves that net $336 million a year. A more important cause for optimism is Kenneth Kaunda himself. A teetotaling preacher's son and ex-schoolteacher, Kaunda, 40, is a fiery nationalist who has spent his share of time in British prisons. But he has since convinced his former masters that he has the makings of a moderate African statesman in the mold of Tanganyika's Nyerere. Kaunda advocates a "multiracial society" that will...
...Bill Moyers, 29, a scholarly journalism graduate whom Johnson calls "my Baptist preacher" (he was never a preacher but was ordained to teach in Baptist schools), has become the intellectual commander of the Johnson troops. He assigns the speeches, writes some himself, checks them for tone and accuracy. He plans Johnson's trips, such as his recent poverty tours, sends out advance men, coordinates it all with the President's desires...
...Theology, has already been translated into German, showing that a dialogue is in process. Although both books are forbidding in tone and terminology, the editors argue that the problems considered are not purely academic. Far from being a blue-sky issue, hermeneutic grapples with something that faces every preacher-how to make God's word vivid for a congregation-and represents a link between the pastoral ministry and academic theology. Says Robinson: "The new hermeneutic is designed to help the pastor do what he's paid to do: to tell people about Christianity in terms of their...
Best & Worst. One reason they listen is that Kennedy is unquestionably among the four or five most dazzling preachers in the U.S. today-an oratorical genius with a commanding baritone, and the pace and timing of a Broadway pro. The bishop is also a stylish and fluent writer whose lectures and 23 books (his latest: For Preachers & Other Sinners) sometimes express complex theological issues as gracefully and clearly as did the works of Anglicanism's late C. S. Lewis. As writer, preacher and bishop, Kennedy is the contemporary Methodist who best seems to express the peculiar quality...