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...petition, only 51 short of the number required to get his proposal out of committee and onto the House floor. But opposition was stiffening for one compelling reason: even mild tinkering with the First Amendment is dubious business. Said the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church: "I take alarm at this experiment with our liberties. The Bill of Rights should remain unamended, for the rights are inalienable...
...known outside church circles, Barnes belongs - along with such figures as Willem Visser 't Hooft, Henry P. Van Dusen, and the late Anglican Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G.K. A. Bell - to the great generation of ecumenical architects who brought the World Council to life. A former English teacher, Presbyterian Minister Barnes, 62, was associate general secretary of the old Federal Council of Churches (a predecessor of today's National) from 1940 to 1950. He has been the ranking executive of the World Council in the U.S. since...
...California poll indicates that 58% of the state's voters now oppose the legislature-approved Rumford fair housing act, which will be challenged by an initiative in November. That represents an increase of 12% in the opposition since January. After the Cleveland bulldozer death of Presbyterian Minister Bruce Klunder (TIME, April 17), some 225 of the city's Presbyterian elders and 75 ministers met and questioned three Presbyterian clergymen who had taken part in demonstrations. Not satisfied with their explanations, the Rev. John Bruere, minister of the integrated Calvary Presbyterian church, protested: "We have had to remind ourselves...
...Francisco's Grace Cathedral four years ago, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake formally proposed that his United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. join the Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ to form one great new Protestant denomination of more than 20 million members. Last week Dr. Blake's ecumenical dream proved to be just as far away as ever. At the third annual Consultation on Church Union at Princeton, delegates from the six participating churches* discovered that there was enough agreement on such theological issues as the nature of baptism and Holy Communion for the talks...
...white Presbyterian minister, Klunder was born in Oregon, graduated from Yale University Divinity School, went to Cleveland in 1961 as assistant executive secretary of the Student Christian Union at Western Reserve University. He swiftly threw himself into the center of the city's civil rights fight...