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...Spalding, a Presbyterian campus minister and chaplain to the Undergraduate Ecumenical Forum, has been a member of the United Ministry at Harvard since...
This pairing is signaled in the novel's opening pages. In the late spring of 1910, in Paterson, New Jersey, D.W. Griffith is directing a film titled The Call to Arms. Just at the moment the leading lady, Mary Pickford, faints from the unseasonable heat, a few blocks away Presbyterian minister Clarence Arthur Wilmot loses his belief in the Divinity: "the God of the Pentateuch was an absurd bully, barbarically thundering through a cosmos entirely misconceived. There is no such God, nor should there...
...concerned with whether there was an Abraham, a Noah, a 40-year trek in the wilderness or an invasion of Palestine. The stories were created to convey the theological truth that God empowers, guides and saves. Faith is the key. (THE REV.) ROBERT B. GUSTAVSON First Presbyterian Church Silver City, New Mexico...
...this view limited to local officials. Chief Justice Warren Burger once defended the Nebraska legislature's employment of a Presbyterian minister to open all assembly meetings with a prayer, by suggesting that this was "simply a tolerable acknowledgement of beliefs widely held among people of this country...
Some hospitals have begun to expect more of their surgeons. Last year Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City opened a new center for the evaluation of surgical innovation. "With life-threatening illnesses, the pressures are great to try new things," says Annetine Gelijns, the center's director. Her team tries to resist those pressures long enough to consider some tough issues--such as whether there are ways to evaluate new operations that would be faster than the slow but sure process of a scientifically controlled study. For desperately ill patients and the trailblazing doctors who believe they have...