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...Universes. Fosdick was reared by a liberal schoolteacher father who was a trinitarian in his own way: he had his son immersed as a Baptist but sent him to Presbyterian Sunday school and allowed him to join a Methodist youth group. At Colgate University, modernist thinkers so impressed the boy that he wrote his mother, "I am building another universe and leaving God out of it." But God was back in by the time Fosdick graduated from Colgate in the class of 1900. He entered Union Theological Seminary and in 1903 was ordained into the Baptist ministry...
...Jesuit Priest Walter M. Abbott ten years ago-four years before the Supreme Court decision-while he was an editor of America. Work began in 1961 after Father Abbott had been joined by Dr. Rolfe Lanier Hunt, a Methodist educator, the Rev. J. Carter Swaim, a Biblical scholar and Presbyterian pastor, and Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, now dean of the Jewish Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia...
Leighton Ford, 38, is the handsome, Canadian-born heir apparent to the Billy Graham empire. He met Graham 20 years ago, and Billy's younger sister Jean shortly thereafter at Wheaton College; they married while Ford was studying to become a Southern Presbyterian minister. Now an associate evangelist with Billy's Crusade, Ford is a shade more polished than Graham, and preaches even more earnestly than his brother-in-law that "a commitment to Christ is a commitment to social reform...
After pointedly taking issue with the threat of violence posed in the manifesto, the United Presbyterian Church nonetheless invited Forman to speak be fore its General Assembly last May. And in the most generous response yet to Forman's complaint, the Presbyterians authorized a drive to obtain $50 million for general works against poverty...
...meeting will be chaired by Michael W. Grafton '71. Other members of the New College '71, David J. Montzingo '71, John M. Lewis, Junior Fellow in English, and Rev. Richard E. Mumma, former Presbyterian chaplain of the United Ministry of Harvard and Radcliffe...