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Three representatives from the Presbyterian Church USA, which has announced plans to cut ties to firms that support Israeli soldiers and settlers on the West Bank and Gaza, outlined their denomination’s controversial divestment policy before a crowd of 70 students and community members in Emerson Hall last night...
While all three speakers yesterday supported the Presbyterian Church’s decision to divest, Rami R. Sarafa ’07, president of the Society of Arab Students (SAS), said that “at this time, we and our co-sponsoring organizations are not promoting divestment but are promoting discussion and debate about it.” The International Relations Council, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, and the Woodbridge Society of International Students joined SAS to co-sponsor the event along with several graduate school and alumni groups...
Last June the Presbyterian Church USA’s General Assembly—which represents the denomination’s 2.5 million adherents nationwide, initiated “a process of phased selective divestment” but did not call for the immediate sale of stock in firms with ties to Israel, said the Rev. Thomas F. Kepler of the Boston Presbytery...
DIED. Eugene Carson Blake, 78, eminent American liberal churchman who as chief executive of a Presbyterian denomination (1951-66), president of the National Council of Churches (1954-57) and general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1966-72) used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat's doggedness in a lifelong quest for union among Christians; of complications from diabetes; in Stamford, Conn. He strove to enlist his church in the fight for civil rights, and in 1960 he proposed the unification of the Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing...
...adds.) Her father John, 77, was a G.I. Bill student who became an FBI agent and then a corporate lawyer; Nell Martin, who raised Ann and two boys, is the daughter of a Paducah printmaker. Coulter learned to argue around a dinner table populated by a Catholic father, a Presbyterian mother and two brothers--one of them "a Presbyterian and an anti-Papist," Coulter says with a titter, and the other a Catholic. "And I'm like Hillary with the Mets and the Yankees--I root for both...