Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whenever we try to achieve something here," complained the Rev. James Laird of Detroit, a leader of the integration-minded Methodists for Church Renewal, "we are told, 'all right-but not now.' " By the end of the Methodist Church's quadrennial General Conference in Pittsburgh last week, the 858 delegates had given more than lip service to civil rights, but had not forced integration on white-only congregations...
...peculiar type of Christian, conscious of what Gunnar Myrdal called the American dilemma. Specifically, non-violent strategy assumes that man is evil but that every man is on the verge of conversion. Negroes are led to believe there is redemption in suffering. Demonstrators are told, to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King at the March on Washington, that they should "continue to work with the faith that honor in suffering is redemptive ... We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force." Further, demonstrators assume whites striking defenseless Negroes experience considerable shame and evoke the same...
...same time, non-violent strategists have told Negroes the same thing the Rev. Mr. King said at the March on Washington: "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to the slums and ghettoes of our Northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed." King added, "The marvelous militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead to a distrust of all white people..." King's first statement is based on a correct assumption: many Negroes believe somehow the situation will be changed. However, this is an essentially ahistorical solution based...
...their actions, if not in their words, many of Methodism's modern rebels are halfway willing to concede Kennedy's point. "We look to the church to lead and often find it a reluctant caboose to the train of history," says the Rev. John Russell Jr., a chaplain at M.I.T. "The amazing thing, in the face of all that we have seen to be wrong, is the stark fact that we have not quit." And instead of abandoning the church, they have stayed to set it on a rightful course...
Serious Theology. It was Asbury's stern belief that "the saddlebags are the best schooling for traveling preachers." Today, says the Rev. Walter Vernon of the church's Board of Education, Methodism is "taking theology more seriously." The Methodists have no Tillich or Barth, but they have seldom before had so many competent and respected thinkers to boast about. Among them: Ecumenist Albert Outler, a Methodist observer at the Vatican Council last year, and radical young (37) Systematic Theologian Schubert Ogden...