Word: presbyterians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While at Bates College, Gould also left the Orthodox Jewish faith of his parents. He later became a Presbyterian, served as a church elder...
...main argument against building big churches is that the money spent buying stone might better be used buying bread for the poor. "For every dollar that goes into a church building, a dollar should go to feed starving children," says Presbyterian Minister Robert Hudnut of Wayzata, a Minneapolis suburb, who believes that all new churches should reflect "humility and economy." Rochester's innovation-minded Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (see PEOPLE) feels much the same way; up to 3% of the value of every parish construction project must be paid to Sheen's office in the form...
Looking far ahead, some church visionaries see a trend toward more worship in small, homogeneous groups-either at home, at work, or in chapel-size churchlets. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford, who believes that the traditional parish structure will eventually be an anachronism, suggests that the church should be prepared to quarter itself "in campaign tents rather than cathedrals. That would reflect the mobility of the modern church and allow it to go where the people are." Otherwise, Brown predicts, "we'll have a lot more buildings than we know what to do with...
Some Southwesterners, in the harsh, half-forgotten tradition of the Old West, refused to be awed by the natural disaster. Speaking of the eight deaths on the Navajo Reservation, Presbyterian Missionary Harold Borhauer, 45, said: "I bury more than that at the opening of the pinon season"-the autumn harvest of protein-rich pinon nuts, during which Indians have been known to die of respiratory ailments contracted in the chilly mountains. Adee Dodge, a Navajo painter, added a peculiarly Indian note of resignation: "We publicly thank all the dear gods of this world for having caused such a windfall...
...youngsters. Linda is a bright, smashing 28-year-old blonde who is working at becoming a documentary film maker. Tony, 27, recently got married, is a Harvard Law graduate working at 20th Century-Fox. Nora, 21, is a lively chick who is a secretary at Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Kelly, 21, is a Navy seaman, freshly graduated from the Underwater Warfare School in San Diego...