Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Middle Ages, like A.R. Gurney Jr.'s other plays about the declining Protestant elite (Scenes from American Life, the current off-Broadway hit The Dining Room), is a wistful, elegiac comedy that preserves a tight-lipped emotional reserve: confrontations that could be tragic are played for rueful laughter...
Many of the Protestant agencies now under attack do not seem to be greatly concerned with that threat. Next week the United Methodist Reporter, the church's most influential newspaper chain, will begin reporting on its own exhaustive N.C.C. investigation; among other things, it found an overwhelming pattern of...
The critics do not question that honorable or holy men can hold such opinions. But, argues I.R.D. Spokesman Richard John Neuhaus, the church has a responsibility to maintain "a zone of truth which represents the full range of morally serious reflection." And the leftist thrust of the Protestant activists has...
The United Methodist Church, which has lost 1.4 million members since 1968, would normally welcome most converts. But its leaders must rue the day in 1979 when David Jessup, who had become a religious dropout in college, decided to join the Marvin Memorial Church of Silver Spring, Md. Jessup, 42...
The current full-time I.R.D. staff consists of only five professional researchers and administrators and five clerical workers. Following Jessup's lead (though he is now less active), they sift through mind-numbing denominational documents, ferreting out damaging quotations, grants and linkages, especially in the foreign policy field. The...