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...have closed, merged, or moved lock, stock and chalice to the suburbs, after the middle-class territories they served degenerated into slums. This decline of Protestant strength in the "inner city" worries church leaders, and Castle, whose own community has lost at least two Episcopal and one Presbyterian church in the past 15 years, shares their concern. "We need to turn out from ourselves to see the people God has given us the privilege to minister and serve," he says...
...flesh unity of male and female is a gift from God, who is concerned with this union which has a significance of its own," said the report on Responsible Marriage and Parenthood adopted last week by the 174th General Assembly of the 3,250,000-member United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., meeting in Denver. Deploring "euphemism" and "prudishness," the report made the assumption that the church cannot maintain its "embarrassed silence" of the past because Protestant men and women today need clear stands on sex-as was shown, for example, by the violent pros and cons Vassar President Sarah...
...acceptance in the most positive approval yet by a major Protestant group. The report approved sperm donation both by husbands and by anonymous males, but suggested that physicians should be convinced of the "intelligence and emotional stability" of couples before recommending this "radical social procedure." The assembly also urged Presbyterians to work for uniform state laws that would protect the rights of test-tube babies. Its conclusion: "To discover in artificial insemination by an anonymous donor an act of adultery is certainly to give the word a meaning that it does not have in the New Testament." Upholding the right...
...ROBERT McArEE BROWN, 41, Auburn professor of systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary. Presbyterian Brown, who will transfer to Stanford this fall, sees himself as a "filter through which the thoughts of the great pass on to the layman, the translator of topflight minds to those who haven't had three years in a seminary." A graduate of Amherst and Union Theological, he served as a Navy chaplain at the end of World War II. One of Brown's first teaching assignments, eleven years ago, took him to Macalester College in Minnesota, where he got to know...
...shocked by the presbytery's action," he said. So, regardless of the merit of the charges, were other clergymen, who worried about the presbytery's behavior in removing a pastor over the objections of his parish. Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell, minister emeritus of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, called the exercise of power "disturbing to ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church at large...