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During his senior year at New York City's Union Theological Seminary, William Silver "came to the point at which I could say openly that I was gay. I told almost everyone." Among those he told were members of Central Presbyterian Church, a Park Avenue parish that found his homosexuality no reason not to "call" Silver as its assistant pastor...
...Presbytery of New York City, which must approve ordinations of new clergy, was not so sure. Two years ago, it asked the 2.6 million-member United Presbyterian Church for "definitive guidance" on ordaining homosexuals. That led in turn to the most thorough study of the issue ever undertaken by a major church. Last week in San Diego the New Yorkers got their guidance: 651 General Assembly delegates pronounced a resounding no to acceptance of openly homosexual clergy and lay officers...
...miracle took place five years ago in San Francisco's Old First Presbyterian Church. A destitute old man with trembling hands sat down at the Baldwin piano to give a fund-raising recital for his sick wife's medical expenses. He had not practiced, or owned a piano, for four decades. He had not even looked at the music, Liszt's lengthy, difficult Legendes, in more than half a century. Yet when his ringers touched the keys, there came a burst of musical thunder, exploding octaves and a bass of such power and sonority that the Baldwin...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology Emeritus, an expert on mineral resources and an outspoken critic of McCarthyism, died Sunday at the Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 90 years...
Strange stuff. But then, as Presbyterian Jennings says, where UFO speculations are concerned, "the sky might as well be the limit." If the radio discs on earth ever do pick up coherent beep-beeps from another form of life, or the spaceships ever do land, however, the theologians may be forced to consider in systematic earnest the Psalmist's ancient question: "What is man that Thou art mindful...