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...flurry of phone calls from hormone-hunting wives flooded New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center last year, when word got out that of 21 women treated there, 15 became pregnant. The seven who completed their pregnancies bore three single babies, three sets of twins and one set of quads (TIME...
Letters of Support. Mclntire optimistically claims that "anywhere from one-third to one-half of the United Presbyterian members" will defect from the church if the Confession is approved. That hardly seems likely, but there is some evidence for the charge by Executive Editor Nelson Bell of the conservative Protestant biweekly Christianity Today that "dissent will reach into almost every presbytery." Already, members of churches in Pittsburgh, Peoria and San Jose, Calif., have gone on record as opposing the Confession in its present form. In Seattle, the Rev. David Brittain of Foster-Tukwila Presbyterian Church fears that one-fourth...
...annual General Assembly in Portland recently, the tiny (12,500 members), fundamentalist Orthodox Presbyterian Church formally extended a hand of welcome to any who would like to leave the 3,300,000-member United Presbyterian Church. The same gesture was made by the equally small Bible Presbyterian Church, headed by Radio Preacher Carl Mclntire. Both churches clearly hope to swell their ranks with conservative Presbyterians dismayed by the "Confession of 1967," approved in principle at the United Presbyterian General Assembly last May (TIME, June...
...principal argument against the Confession of 1967-the first new statement of the church's faith since the 1647 Westminster Confession-is that it betrays rather than updates traditional Presbyterian beliefs. Conservatives claim that it downgrades the Bible from the infallible word of God to a mere "normative witness" of revelation, discards the Calvinist teaching on the predestination of God's elect, and conceives of the church primarily as a social organism to further racial and economic justice. Stimson also charges that it provides theological justification for the scuttling of the democratic Presbyterian form of church government...
...support a moral judgment are nearly all on the public record, and foreign policy, where so much essential background for decision is top secret. "There are times when we must trust our leaders to make the right moral decisions," says the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, "since not all the alternatives can be placed in church channels or the public forum...