Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During last week's conversation at the Lamars', for example, Hostess Mary Lamar, a Catholic mother of seven, suggested that at one of their meetings the group ought to visit the Catholic church across the street. Presbyterian Bettie Phillips promptly suggested that they also visit her church. "You'd probably be surprised, Mary," she said, "that we have the same kind of symbolism you have...
Next to Coca-Cola, probably the most notable U.S. presence in the Middle East is a Lebanese university founded by an American Presbyterian minister. Last week, on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean, the American University of Beirut began its centennial year by inaugurating Samuel Kirkwood, a former Harvard medical professor and public health commissioner of Massachusetts, as its new president. Later, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey and President Emeritus James Conant will join the year-long celebration as A.U.B. moves ahead on what Kirkwood sees as its main mission: "To provide a Western education without alienating the student from...
...Presbyterian Hospital New York City...
Last month, for example, the Episcopal diocese of New York appointed a blue-ribbon panel of lawyers to determine whether the church should pay taxes on its property. Similar investigations have been undertaken in recent years by the Baptists, the American Lutheran Church, the United Presbyterian Church and the National Council of Churches. By and large, the studies have ended in demands for more study-largely because the clergymen themselves are bitterly divided about whether they should pay any taxes, and on what property...
...Michigan Council of Churches, he set up the Detroit Industrial Mission. Now there are simi lar missions in ten cities, linked by a national committee that last month held its first organizational meeting in Bos ton, coaxed Father White into accepting its executive directorship. Worth Loomis, a Presbyterian layman, is permanent president of the committee...