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...accomplishments for the inside back flap of his novel's dust jacket. It is thus very good to be able to put down, as Novelist Barry Hannah did on the jacket of Geronimo Rex, "troubleshooter in a turkey-pressing plant." It is not so good to write "Presbyterian minister," and Frederick Buechner, who interrupted his writing career for several years to take a degree at Union Theological Seminary and become a minister, admits that he has thought of publishing his novels under an assumed name. As things are, he says some reviewers tend to review not the novels...
Shakespeare provided not only Papp's personal lodestone, but the beginning of the Public Theater, which he started in 1953 in a Presbyterian church on East Sixth Street as the Shakespeare Workshop. "It was hard enough to imagine we could get any audience for Shakespeare down there at all," says Bernard Gersten, Papp's second in command, "let alone charge money for it. Romeo and Juliet? Theater? What's that?" he asks with an illustrative shrug of the shoulders. "At least we could get people in with the word 'free.' " The original budget: $750. What...
EXPLO was the creation of Campus Crusade for Christ International, an evangelical organization headquartered in San Bernardino, Calif., and founded two decades ago by former Businessman Bill Bright, now 50, a United Presbyterian layman. Campus Crusade is no longer limited to U.S. campuses: some 500 of its 3,000 staffers are posted in 50 foreign countries, and it trains 100,000 laymen a year to promulgate Bright's copyrighted "Four Spiritual Laws" to unbelievers...
Despite the apparent anti-ecumenical bias of the action, the vote to withdraw from COCU-if it is not reversed at next year's meeting-could actually improve Presbyterian ecumenism in some other directions. The Rev. Matthew Welde of Norristown, Pa., who led the Philadelphia anti-COCU move, says that he and his supporters oppose "structural union" but would like to see wider "spiritual unity" in ecumenical contacts-including those with groups not now included in the COCU plan, such as the Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists and Pentecostals. Also, the Presbyterians' plans to merge with the Presbyterian Church...
...wake of his church's action on COCU, Princeton Seminary President McCord was in Washington last week for a special occasion: the dedication of the Tower of Faith, a 173-ft. freestanding bell tower at the denomination's showcase, the $10 million National Presbyterian Church and Center. The tower was dedicated to TIME'S founder, Henry Robinson Luce, a zealous, lifelong Presbyterian, who was a major driving force behind the center. McCord delivered an address entitled "The Faith of Henry Luce," which characterized Luce as "a Calvinist who understood life as an exodus and pilgrimage." Without specifically...