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...seen their hopes crushed-as in the upheavals and violence of the '60s-and need their faith reaffirmed. To express all this symbolically through environmental theater, Monick worked for two months with the event's directors, Kevin O'Connor, a Roman Catholic, and Gordon Stewart, a Presbyterian. One nice touch they devised to dramatize the rebirth theme: during the baptism, members of the cast circulated among the worshipers washing the mud from their hands. Monick also devoted five Sunday services to explanations that would prepare his congregation for the event...
...UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH is coping with a sex report issued by a twelve-member task force of church professionals. It suggests that the arbitrary requirement of premarital virginity be replaced by a sliding scale of allowable premarital sex, geared to the permanence, depth and maturity of the relationship. The report finds "exceptional circumstances" in which adultery might be justified: for instance, when one spouse suffers permanent mental incapacity. It also says the church should explore the possibility of communal and other sex styles for the unmarried. The church's General Assembly voted to "receive" the report for study after...
...most important changes have been in organization and attitudes. "Patients have to get to the right place," says Dr. Max Weil of Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. "Personnel must be selectively prejudiced in favor of the individual who can't wait." To promote this sense of discrimination, Weil urges a screening system to separate the critically ill or injured from those in less serious condition. He would direct the remainder to other departments or clinics within the hospital...
...that giant step for mankind, but made one for Christianity as well. In London, Dr. Thomas Paine, former chief of NASA, disclosed that during radio blackout Aldrin opened two little plastic packages, one containing bread, the other wine. "I poured the wine into the chalice which our church [Webster Presbyterian Church] had given me," Aldrin radioed later to Houston. "In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon and the first food eaten there...
...First Rank" schools provides no surprises: Chicago, Duke, Harvard, Princeton Seminary, Vanderbilt, Yale, and the Columbia-Union Seminary combine. He downgrades as merely "Marginal" the doctoral programs at eight church seminaries, among them the only Lutheran, Episcopal and United Church of Christ programs and two of the three Presbyterian ones. He also gives a Marginal rating to the programs at Fordham, Temple, U-C Santa Barbara, Saint Louis, Southern Cal, Catholic University and Drew University...