Word: presbyterianism
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Every major U.S. Protestant church by now can be roughly divided between members who favor greater involvement in social issues and those who feel that the church should stick to the problem of helping individuals find salvation. Within the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern), this division has hardened to the point that some church leaders fear a potential schism precisely because the divergent views have become embodied in well-established pressure groups...
Representing the liberal outlook is an organization of ministers and laymen, founded four years ago, called A Fellowship of Concern. Now boasting a membership of more than 5,000, the fellowship has an influential journalistic voice in the Presbyterian Outlook (circ. 9,000). Church officers credit the organization with helping to promote such actions of recent general assemblies as a series of strong statements on racial equality and the 1966 vote to join nine other denominations in the Consultation on Church Union...
Church leaders worry that the growing strength of these two organizations could crystallize into irreparable hostility. In April, 30 leading Presbyterians published an open letter in several church journals, warning against the possibilities of rift. Last week Southern Presbyterian Moderator Marshall Dendy of Richmond announced that he had invited leaders of both factions to a peace parley in Atlanta next January...
...took over a defunct medical-school campus in Waltham, Mass., in 1948 and personally pushed Brandeis into the top score or so of U.S. private universities. He did so largely by courting Jewish philanthropists, even while insisting, not quite accurately, that Brandeis is "no more Jewish than Princeton is Presbyterian." Although the university has no administrative ties with any of Judaism's religious organizations, the student body, which now numbers 2,460, more than a fourth of them in graduate work, is still about 70% Jewish. The faculty is particularly strong in biochemistry, bacteriology, chemistry, physics, English, history...
Mormon temple. Ronna's parents, who are not Mormons, were not permitted to witness the ceremony. Her mother divorced Ronna's father, James Stern, and is now married to Will Kraus, a Presbyterian. Also not present to be sealed in the family unit was Ronna's three-year-old son, Kevin, whom Ronna and Scott plan to adopt and give the surname of Romney...