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...Your report that "the mildly liberal majority" of the members of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. favors union with the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. [Nov. 13] is inaccurate. The truth is that a vast majority of the P.C.U.S. members are conservative, and they oppose the union...
...several years now, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern Presbyterians) has been rumbling with rumors and threats of schism. The mildly liberal majority of the 960,000-member denomination favor a merger with the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterians), which would heal a breach reaching back to the Civil War. Conservatives among the Southern Presbyterians are not only opposed to the merger but also to the liberals' emphasis on social action at the expense of evangelism and to a proposed new confession of faith that they consider doctrinally vague. Up to now, the right-wing...
...offspring of both sexes. Three years ago, investigators at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis reported "presumptive evidence" that an anomalous gene on the X chromosome is associated with the emotional disorder. The new and more definite evidence comes from Dr. Ronald R. Fieve and colleagues at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
Potter becomes the third man to occupy the office since the World Council was founded in 1948. Scholarly Dutchman W.A. Visser 't Hooft, one of the organization's founding fathers, held the post until 1966, when he was succeeded by noted U.S. Presbyterian Ecumenist Eugene Carson Blake. Now 65, Blake is due to retire this fall. Potter will then take up a five-year term as ecumenical spokesman for more than 250 member denominations of the World Council, including Protestants, Anglicans and Eastern Orthodox -some 400 million Christians in all. Since Protestants form the core of the organization...
...speaks each year to more than 100 religious gatherings, for which he takes no fee, only expenses. He has appeared at Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches, but his messages seem most at home in Baptist independents like the Kelview Heights Baptist Church in Midland, Texas, where he spoke last week...