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...true. Activism is in retreat within America's "name brand" churches [May 28]. Denominations are retrenching. But to interpret the defeat of Eugene Carson Blake for Moderator of the United Presbyterian General Assembly as a repudiation of the '60s is to misunderstand. That same assembly deplored the continued bombing of Cambodia and Laos, supported the boycott of lettuce and grapes, and returned the U.P. Church to the Consultation on Church Union. Marks of an era not wholly spurned...
...social objectives of the liberal Blake-ite leaders but their methods that cost the church members and money. When conservative Presbyterians pleaded for a little more common sense and a little less grandstanding emotion in church policies, they were brushed aside by their liberal brethren. Bigotry comes in many forms; Presbyterian liberals managed to display one of its least attractive aspects, the "holier-than-thou" complex...
...homosexuality a manifestation of sin? Is it a sickness?" So go the questions that lead off the July-August issue of Trends, a bimonthly adult education journal produced by the Christian Education staff of the United Presbyterian Church. The answer? A resounding and very un-Presbyterian...
...into heaven. The "classical" Pentecostal denominations, like the Assemblies of God, grew up around the turn of the century and are by far the largest group-some 2.4 million in the U.S. alone. A "Nee-Pentecostal" movement has developed over the past 20 years within mainstream Protestant churches-Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran-and is still spreading...
...Oddly, the conservative rebels who depart will do so at a time when conservatives are winning important concessions in the church on the very issues that provoked the split. The Consultation on Church Union, whose interdenominational merger plan conservatives opposed, has been seriously weakened. A vote on an intra-Presbyterian merger with the Northern United Presbyterians has been postponed, and so has another critical vote on adopting a more liberal new confession of faith...