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This collection of different programs bothers some members. "The undergraduate sees the United Ministry as a prolifera of one night stands," Blannings says. But other members, such as the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the United Presbyterian church do not necessarily lament this disunity: "The United Ministry is not an action oriented group," he explains "but action can be taken by the individual...
...Held by the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, a Presbyterian, during the Eisenhower years and Baptist Minister Edward Hughes Pruden under Truman. John Kennedy, when in Washington, attended Sunday Mass at a number of different churches, including Georgetown's Holy Trinity and St. Matthew's Cathedral...
...least 75% of the nation's four-year colleges have religion courses; more than 20% of U.S. state schools have separate religion departments. Princeton, a Presbyterian-founded school that is now as secular as any state university, started a religion program in 1946 with one teacher, three courses and 70 curious students. Today the department has 14 professors, 20 courses, and an average enrollment of more than 1,000. At Iowa, which set up a pioneering religion department in 1927, courses now attract 3,500 of the university's 16,000 students. The 1½-year-old religion...
...Joseph Blau. Western Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course on the Reformation is taught by a Jew, another on the philosophy of religion by an avowed agnostic. Stanford's religion course on ecumenism is taught jointly by Presbyterian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman Catholic Michael Novak...
Apart from pro football, in fact, there is mighty little that churches will not present these days for the greater glory of God. Last week CBS put on an hour-long concert of ecclesiastical jazz by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, video-taped at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The Southern Baptists, besides their soap-operatic mainstay series, The Answer, have cooperated with NBC to produce a spectacular life of St. Paul and a recreation of Biblical history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major...