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...come to escape society," adds President Alvin N. Rogness of St. Paul's Lutheran Theological Seminary, "but to engage it with vital issues." In one recent year, a third of the students at Yale Divinity School were Phi Beta Kappas; of 39 students who entered Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary last year, 13 had IQs of 130 or more. At Vanderbilt, reports Dean William C. Finch, seminarians are "as a group equal to or better than" other graduate students...
...divinity schools are now openly-and successfully -recruiting students of promise. Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena gets 200 inquiries a year in response to its evangelical ads in religious journals, has six part-time recruiters who tour campuses in search of potential ministers. The director of admissions at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary travels more than 5,000 miles a year visiting churches and colleges in the Southwest...
...POAU will lobby for foreign-aid controls that would prevent the disbursement of U.S. funds to religious institutions in Latin America. In Girardot, Colombia, James Goff, a Presbyterian missionary, charged that the child of one Protestant was forbidden entrance to a local school built by Alliance for Progress funds and run by Catholic nuns...
Pentecost & Pennsylvania. Claiming to be a movement rather than a denomination, the Churches of Christ trace their founding back to the first Pentecost. Historians generally date the origin of the churches from 1809, when the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a dissident Presbyterian minister from western Pennsylvania, founded a new "Christian Association" to bring the church back to the practices of New Testament times. The Campbellites eventually split into liberal and conservative camps over such issues as the right of pastors to use the title reverend and the introduction of organ music in church services. In 1906 the conservatives reported separately...
Churches are also searching for new ways to minister to an increasingly mobile population. In Philadelphia's West Mill Creek redevelopment project, 3,200 residents are served by a young Presbyterian minister who has no church, preaches no sermons, collects no contributions. Instead, the Rev. Eugene Turner simply moves among the development homes, offering his help, and only incidentally guiding the religiously inclined to the church of their choice. "Mine is a ministry of mobility," he says. "I can most successfully meet these people without the traditional institutional forms." In Denver, pastors are worrying about how to reach families...