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...fledgling Museum of Contemporary Art (TIME, Nov. 3), is equally geared to the current scene. His private collection consists primarily of surrealist and brutalist works, about which he often writes and lectures (Francis Bacon's Man in the Blue Box, for example, was recently taken along to a Presbyterian church to illustrate a lecture on the existential human condition). Though Shapiro maintains that he has never paid more than $5,000 in cash for a painting (and seen some appreciate to as much as $60,000), he warns against the notion that art is merely a canny investment...
...Presbyterian minister, Caldwell, 64, has toured the rural Southern states every summer for the past three years, visiting revival meetings and churches. Though "rural camp-meetings have been replaced by brick-walled auditoriums and revival tents by rainproof sheds," he writes, the raucous rhythms of lined-out hymns and "the resounding babble of glossalalia" can still be heard-evidence that neither drive-in movies nor television has "diminished the appeal that uninhibited religious exhibitions have as popular entertainment." One Cumberland mountaineer told Caldwell: "I always go to church on Sundays to get my soul saved like the preacher says...
Peasant Philosophy. A Presbyterian and strong believer in simplicity and solidarity-what he likes to call "peasant philosophy"-Aguiar found city life incompatible with his principles. "I need a place with the healthy atmosphere of the interior," he explains. This is what he achieved by building his own company town and calling it City of God. He recalls: "They all said we were mad. The roads were so bad that when it rained hard our city became unreachable even by Jeep. We had no communications, no telephone." That was 15 years ago. When 40,000 people poured into town last...
Stolen Vineyard. As Baker's war of words grew increasingly shrill, exasperated elders of the congregation demanded that he be brought to trial on charges of violating church discipline under provisions of the Presbyterian Book of Order. The trial, which began Dec. 9, was held in the basement of the church, with two members of the congregation serving as prosecution counsel. Baker-who had melodramatically nailed a copy of the hearing notice-to the church door on Reformation Sunday-acted as his own defense attorney. In a closing summation, he linked himself with Naboth of the Old Testament whose...
...faith in Jesus Christ nor of love within the family of believers." Under terms of suspension, the Bakers can still attend services at the church, but cannot take Communion or vote at congregational meetings-and they can be excommunicated if they do not repent. Much to the embarrassment of Presbyterian officials, Baker has no intention of resting his case. Immediately following the verdict, he appealed to the Iowa Synod, and he plans, if necessary, to carry his case to the General Assembly of the church. Says Baker: "I find myself involved in a significant struggle within the Presbyterian Church...