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...staff needn't be trained psychologists or sociologists--in fact, it's probably better if they're not. "Dr. Schwitzgebel says. "What is most important is to listen to the boy as a human being, not to preach to him. In the past year at Streetcorner Research, our volunteer experimenters have included, besides graduate students, a bank clerk, a medical doctor, a minister, a plumber, and a housewife. These volunteers are fascinated by the research and have proved successful...
...Texas and Arizona-just as their forebears did in decades past. The cow country's first campfire meeting was organized back in 1890 by the Rev. W. B. Bloys, Stated Clerk of the El Paso Presbytery, who rode out to a campsite in the Davis Mountains to preach for three days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in setting up a regular circuit of campfire meetings...
...unions within unions" are not uncommon. They already exist among staff members of at least nine U.S. unions, including the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Says the Electrical Workers' President James Carey: "As an employer, I believe in practicing what I preach...
Prism & Wonderland. One of five curates at St. Stephen's, Priest-Publisher Beaumont-thanks to an "understanding" vicar-has no duties except on Sunday, a privilege shared by some Anglican "worker priests" in British industrial cities who labor weekdays in factories, preach and worship on Sunday in mission chapels. Beaumont is currently in the midst of tidying up his communications interests. For "a nominal sum," he recently sold the weekly magazine Time & Tide, which he saved from extinction in 1960 and turned into one of England's liveliest but most unprofitable journals of opinion (he lost...
...says. "We need a revision of the Prayer Book. We need to purge the Gospels of out-of-date accretions and produce an act of worship in modern idiom. The church spends its funds wrongly too. Church money should be used to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and preach the Gospel...