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...REV.) ROBERT A. WINTER Saint Mark's Church Warren...
Some churches make no secret of their desire to get rid of a civil-righteous pastor-and when congregational policy allows it, they sometimes do so. In the Boston suburb of Newton, the Rev. Frank Weiskel of the First Congregational Church was dismissed soon after he and a visiting Negro minister sang We Shall Overcome from the pulpit. Last February, the Rev. William Youngdahl of Omaha's Augustana Lutheran Church was forced to resign his charge after congregants protested his involvement in local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left...
Taking It Easy. Typical of ministers who have decided to express their convictions more cautiously is the Rev. Noah Inbody of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Skokie, Ill. A Selma marcher, he returned home full of zeal for open housing, lost several wealthy parishioners as a result of strong sermons on the subject, faced the threat of losing touch completely with his middle-class suburban congregation. Although his opinions have not changed, Inbody no longer takes an active part in civil rights work. "I've had to take it easy," he admits. "I don't go out and pound...
...well as a social problem, have taken a new and softer tack. In the face of congregational hostility, they have come to recognize that white fears about black power are as legitimate as Negro yearnings for a place in the sun. Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned pulpit-thumping sermons and turned to the long-range task of convincing their...
...Rev. Richard E. Mumma, treasurer and member of the executive committee on the Anti-HUAC Committee, said that although no definite plans had been made yet, "some of our members will probably go to Washington next Monday." The job of alerting a number of lawyers and clergymen who have protested HUAC activities is now in progress, Mumma said. There is every hope that they will respond, he added...