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When Presbyterian Leader Eugene Carson Blake first proposed the idea from the pulpit of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral in 1960, it electrified U.S. Christianity: as a step toward ultimate church reunion, he said, mainstream American Protestants must unite. At the time, Blake optimistically predicted that the project would need ten years to bear any fruit at all; pessimists seemed to think it was impossible. Last week, as the Consultation on Church Union met for the eighth time in Atlanta to carry forward Blake's pioneering proposal, it appeared that the participants were willing to accept...
...Pulpit Natural. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, Farmer was a member of the black intellectual elite from the start. His father, a college professor, was the state's first Negro Ph.D.; he read Aramaic and Greek. At 18, Farmer received a B.S. in chemistry from Wiley College. Seemingly a natural for the pulpit (he had won a $1,000 prize for oratory), Farmer got a divinity degree from Howard University but was never ordained. He was repelled by the then segregationist policies of the Methodist Church, which inevitably led him into the infant civil rights movement...
Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation...
...eyes of the public. They will try to demoralize the government, and they will try to demoralize you." Who were "they"? Almost anyone in Brazil's elite who wore mufti, if Costa e Silva was to be believed: "You have heard voices raise themselves from the pulpit, from the courts, from Congress, from the universities and from the press." Some were even members of the National Renewal Alliance, the government party established after the first military takeover in March 1964 against Leftist Joao Goulart. The government last week indicated that it may disband the party. One embarrassing reason...
...nation's 120 Negro colleges, most are in the South and most have traditionally had ministers as presidents-often men of intellectual distinction but with no training as educators. However bombastic in the pulpit, they made a point of being obliging to white authority. They demanded little, and they got little. The result was what Sociologists David Riesman and Christopher Jencks have denounced as "an illfinanced, ill-staffed caricature of white higher education." Lately, reflecting both the new pride and the new competence of the U.S.'s black community, a number of more militant Negro college presidents have...