Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right Rev. James A. Pike, Episcopal Bishop of California, has been in charge of one of his church's fastest-growing dioceses for eight years, during which time he has also become absorbed in exploring the frontiers of modern theology. Deciding that he could not adequately do both, the yeasty and iconoclastic prelate last week announced that he will resign his see and become a member of the resident staff of Robert Hutchins' Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. MIND OVER MITER, headlined the New York Daily News...
...years since the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake first proposed the creation of a giant Protestant superchurch, participants in the annual Consultation on Church Union have spent their time sparring over preliminary issues. Last week in Dallas came what Episcopal Bishop Robert Gibson of Virginia called "a crucial moment": delegates from the eight churches in the C.O.C.U.* agreed on a set of principles for the merger, clearing the way for preparation of a formal union plan...
...such problem is ecumenism-particularly, Methodism's willingness to commit itself to the Blake proposal for one big Protestant superchurch. While the leaders speak favorably about ecumenism, Methodists do not have "a compelling feeling that we must unite churches to overcome the scandal of division," says the Rev. James Wall, editor of the biweekly Christian Advocate...
...Alabama and South Carolina have refused to receive Negro churches, the assembly warned that these bodies were "in danger of contempt and subject to discipline"-in sum, integrate or get out. The church also gave qualified approval to civil disobedience "as a measure of last resort." The Rev. Frank H. Caldwell, who was elected moderator by the assembly, acknowledged that civil rights issues "underlie a great deal of unrest and dissension" in his church, but held that the unrest is leading to a redefinition of the church's mission...
LeRoi Jones, 31, is no relation to the Emperor Jones. But he would like to be. He noisily nurses plans for a fascist Black Nation in Harlem; he howls destruction on all his foes, chief among whom are the Rev. Martin Luther King, the American Negro middle class, and absolutely all white men everywhere. In his 1964 play, The Toilet, Jones gave painful promise of developing gifts as a writer. In this disjointed collection of essays, the promise is flatly withdrawn. Jones clings raptly to his privileged role as victim, and has settled for a career as blackwash expert...