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...Iowa City, Iowa, last week, a seven-man ecclesiastical court of clergy and laymen formally convicted Dr. Joseph E. Baker and his wife Matilda of disrupting the "peace and unity" of the First Presbyterian Church. The couple were indefinitely suspended from membership in the congregation, in a rare and unusual Presbyterian Church trial...
...unlikely cause of the proceeding was whether or not the First Presbyterian congregation should tear down its present church. Last winter, by a vote of 169-121, the congregation accepted the recommendation of a building committee to demolish the First Presbyterian's 112-year-old church and erect a much-needed larger one. Baker, 62, a professor of Victorian literature at the University of Iowa, protested that the old church was an "architectural gem" and should not be destroyed. With his wife, he embarked on a vociferous campaign to save...
...reason for the increasing shrillness of dissent is sheer frustration that the voices of protest do not seem to be heeded in Washington. "Johnson, Humphrey and Rusk are simply not paying any attention to the word of protest," complains Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford...
...main argument against building big churches is that the money spent buying stone might better be used buying bread for the poor. "For every dollar that goes into a church building, a dollar should go to feed starving children," says Presbyterian Minister Robert Hudnut of Wayzata, a Minneapolis suburb, who believes that all new churches should reflect "humility and economy." Rochester's innovation-minded Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (see PEOPLE) feels much the same way; up to 3% of the value of every parish construction project must be paid to Sheen's office in the form...
Looking far ahead, some church visionaries see a trend toward more worship in small, homogeneous groups-either at home, at work, or in chapel-size churchlets. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford, who believes that the traditional parish structure will eventually be an anachronism, suggests that the church should be prepared to quarter itself "in campaign tents rather than cathedrals. That would reflect the mobility of the modern church and allow it to go where the people are." Otherwise, Brown predicts, "we'll have a lot more buildings than we know what to do with...