Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among the other signers: Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, United Presbyterian Church Leader Eugene Carson Blake, Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, American Hebrew Congregations President Maurice Eisendrauth, Washington National Cathedral Dean Francis B. Sayre...
Douglass, who has championed these experiments despite opposition from more traditional clergymen, believes that the church "must meet people where they carry on their most vital tasks." In Detroit, United Church, Presbyterian and Episcopal ministers jointly carry on an industrial mission at 30 factories, visiting both workers and management during lunch hours. Last week, the Homeland Ministries Board approved the assignment of a minister to live and work in one of Pittsburgh's new high-rise apartment buildings. His "church" will be the laundry room, the sundeck, the lobby-anywhere that residents gather to talk...
...minutes' walk of one another on what Berkeleyites call "Holy Hill"; the others are within easy driving distance. But what made the Union necessary was the high cost of academic improvements. Although the individual seminaries have plenty of topflight teachers - Old Testament Scholar James Muilenberg at the Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary, Systematic Theologian Keith Bridston at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary - none of the schools ranked among the nation's best. Only two had doctoral programs, and their libraries ranged from average to inadequate. Back in 1959, the seminary presidents began meeting to discuss the possibility of exchanging...
Prison Graduate. The biggest cause for optimism is Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda himself. A teetotaling, guitar-strumming, nonsmoking Presbyterian preacher's son and ex-schoolteacher, Kaunda spent eleven months in British jails-long enough to qualify him for leadership of the ruling United National Independence Party, but not long enough to make him a bitter enemy of the British, who ruled Northern Rhodesia for 73 years. A moderate, Kaunda opposes black racism as practiced by some of the newly independent African states, instead advocates a "multiracial society" providing equal rights for Zambia's 74,000 whites...
...like going back home after eight years as a missionary," said Tanis, a 1951 graduate of Yale, who has a B.D. from Union Theological Seminary and has served three years as a Presbyterian minister...