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Schizophrenic Family. Low Churchman Hines, 54, is the youngest "P.B." in the church's history. Son of a South Carolina physician, he comes from a large and "schizophrenic" family-four of the children were raised in his father's Presbyterian faith; five became Episcopalians like his mother. After graduating from the University of the South, he went on to earn a doctorate in theology at Virginia Theological Seminary. Hines became Bishop of Texas in 1955. He increased the number of priests in his diocese from 80 to 185, founded the lively Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest...
Eugene Carson Blake's 1960 proposal to merge four major Protestant churches into one seemed a lightning flash illuminating a hopeful abstraction, an ex citing new vision. Now the Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church sees his idea as more possible than before, more urgent than ever, and beset by subtle dangers. Last Sunday, shortly after returning from a meeting of the World Council of Churches' Central Committee in Nigeria, he went to San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral, where he had first called for a united church "truly catholic, truly reformed, truly evangelical," and spoke...
...first three tries because the babies had already been too severely damaged. His fourth attempt succeeded, and a live baby-now 16 months old and developing normally-was delivered. Dr. Liley has since had 13 successes in 18 cases. He is now at Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center on a research grant from the U.S. Public Health Service...
Today, says the Rev. William Schram of Huguenot Memorial Presbyterian Church in Pelham, N.Y., "the suburb is the most exciting place for a minister to be." In Wilmette, Ill., the First Congregational Church has formed a financial and spiritual partnership with a downtown Chicago parish revived by Don Benedict's Missionary Society. Members of the congregation also welcome underprivileged children from Inner City churches into their homes for summer vacations, are working in the community to pass open-occupancy covenants. "We broke the barrier of involvement on race," says the Rev. Hugh Saussy of Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church...
...Edwards argues that preaching is on the way out, and that in the future the word of God will be expressed by dialogue rather than monologue: instead of sermons, study-group discussions between ministers and laymen. Already, some ministers and priests are experimenting with unorthodox liturgies. In California, Episcopal, Presbyterian and Methodist ministers have congregated at Communion services in one another's homes. Some U.S. priests have presided at Last Supper-style Masses, following the forms used by 2nd century Christians...