Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among other virtues, Luce believed, true to his Presbyterian origins, that + Time Ic. must always be in business not only to make money but also to make a difference in society, in domestic and world affairs and in people's lives...
...summer in Kennebunkport. It was a secret engagement, Bush says, meaning "the German and Japanese high commands weren't aware of it." But after Bush was shot down over the Pacific in September 1944, Barbara dropped out of Smith in her sophomore year to marry him at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye. "I married the first man I ever kissed," she says. "When I tell this to my children, they just about throw...
...control of appointments. The United Methodist Church operates in much the same way, though local lay leaders are now consulted. But for most Protestant ministers, careers advance through subtle maneuvers to get calls from bigger churches offering higher salaries. Within denominations that are losing members, mobility is limited. The Presbyterian Church, which has suffered a 25% membership drop since 1965, has 1,500 to 2,000 ministers looking for new positions but only 600 to 700 churches with slots to fill. In the Episcopal Church, which has lost 28% of its membership in the same period, full-time openings have...
...creche." But as Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi points out, there is a catch. "In order to uphold the use of religious symbols," he says, "you have to officially describe them as having a secular meaning." Such a redefinition, says James Andrews, chief executive of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), "amounts to the trivialization of the Christian faith...
...demand less time for physicians in the delivery room. "It's a lot easier for a doctor to schedule a woman for caesarean and come in at 8 in the morning and be done by 8:30," says Mortimer Rosen, director of obstetrics and gynecology at New York's Presbyterian Hospital...