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Stained-glass windows are usually reserved for saints, angels or devils. Seldom do living people make the grade. However, twice I have been commissioned to depict in stained glass Presbyterian Eugene Blake as president of the National Council of Churches. The Redford Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit and the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth both have him, without halo, wings or forked tail...
Garden Grove Orthodox Presbyterian Church Garden Grove, Calif...
...system, and Presbyterian Wyrick's well-trained memory, which can connect names with their owners if they turn up at church within a month of their first arrival, is just one means by which the athletic 32-year-old pastor has built his church from 176 to 500 members in less than two years-with an average Sunday attendance of 460. His devices are cozy and catchy. From time to time, he stops the service and asks members of the congregation to introduce themselves to those sitting near them. A large album containing photographs of each family...
Overwhelmingly, the United Presbyterian General Assembly last week voted to support Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake's proposal for uniting with the Episcopalians. Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). The ecumenical vibrations thus set in motion stirred a quick reaction in two denominations...
EPISCOPALIANS: The Episcopal Unity Commission announced that it would submit to the church's Detroit convention in September a resolution agreeing to the Presbyterian call for discussions toward the four-way merger. But the Episcopal Diocese of Maine frowned at the whole idea, asked further study on the ground that there is "much confusion and anxiety" on the subject. If Episcopalians were going to do any uniting, the Maine diocese went on in a formal resolution, the Christians they ought to be doing it with are those in the Eastern Orthodox Church, who, like the Episcopalians, are "catholic" rather...