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...Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church made a historic proposal: that four mainstream Protestant churches should seek to merge into a single organic entity. Out of Blake's proposal came a broader, continuing series of interdenominational meetings called the Consultation on Church Union, which was fervently supported by Protestant ecumenical leaders for more than a decade. Now COCU is in serious trouble -and at the hands of none other than Blake's United Presbyterian Church. At the church's General Assembly in Denver, delegates voted...
...Presbyterian move came as an unexpected shock to COCU supporters. Princeton Theological Seminary President James McCord, chairman of the United Presbyterian COCU delegation, scornfully called it "an aberration that will have to be corrected." COCU Godfather Blake, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, charged that the vote represented a "misunderstanding of what COCU is all about." Added the Rev. Dr. Paul A. Crow Jr., COCU General Secretary: "I still don't think it represents the United Presbyterian Church...
Historic Creeds. In fact, however, the turndown of COCU was a textbook example of Protestant church democracy. Last fall a group of about 100 conservative ministers and laymen began meeting monthly in the Presbyterian headquarters city of Philadelphia to discuss denominational issues. In April they drafted an anti-COCU motion arguing, among other things, that the union plan was trying to meld "irreconcilable viewpoints" among the participating churches and was threatening the self-determination of local congregations. One obvious problem: some of the churches adhere to historic creeds specifying their beliefs; others...
...Overtures Committee strengthened the motion to provide for a complete pullout. The approval was all the more striking because in other respects the assembly was far from conservative; it approved a tough antiwar resolution and passed an approval of abortion-on-de-mand that goes well beyond traditional Presbyterian stands...
...dream shows, Lola was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, the daughter of an 18-year-old lieutenant and a 13-year-old chorine. When she was seven, Eliza's father died of cholera in India. Shipped home to Scotland, the child appalled her stepfather's Presbyterian parents by running naked through the streets. Hustled off to school in Paris, she perfected a homicidal temper and a gift for languages. At 19, she eloped to Ireland with a lieutenant named Thomas James, who soon ran off with a captain's wife. Eliza changed her name to Lola...