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...buys photographic equipment with a passion ("This gear really turns me on"), has already sunk $40,000 into a self-produced, partially completed western in which he stars as a frontier preacher. Its title: God, Guns and Guts. Richards himself is no longer active as a minister, but he remains a religious man who believes that "you have to have faith to achieve." How does that square with his role as a breakfast-food pitchman? Describing his work as "just straight selling of good food," Richards says he has made it clear to General Mills that "I would never...
...addition to dispensing with this restriction, Congress and the President should seriously consider sanctioning by law conscientious objection to particular wars. The arguments against such particular objections, like those raised last Sunday by University Preacher Charles Price, are not convincing. Price contended that there is no "principle" involved in objecting solely to the Vietnamese war. But certainly the moral aversion to fighting anything but aggression is as much a "principle" as objection to fighting itself. And deciding what constitutes fighting is as much a matter of "interpretation" as deciding what constitutes aggression...
...Charles P. Price '41, the University Preacher, delivered his first full-length sermon on the Vietnamese War yesterday and said that opposition to American involvement was not sufficient reason to refuse military service...
...example, would seem charismatic after John XXIII? When Harry Emerson Fosdick retired as minister of Manhattan's interdenominational, cathedral-size Riverside Church in 1946, many Christian leaders wondered how its pulpit committee could possibly find the right man to succeed the nation's best-known liberal Protestant preacher. Last week, when Fosdick's successor announced his intention to retire in June because of a heart condition, the same kind of question was asked: Where could the committee find a proper successor to the Rev. Robert James McCracken...
...McCracken are Baptists-but there the similarity ends. A fiery orator and prolific writer who thrived on controversy, Fosdick became the focus of the modernist-fundamentalist battles of the 1920s by questioning the Virgin Birth and the literal truth of Scripture, later gained a national following as a radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator in the Scottish tradition...