Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumous), D.LET...
...laymen outside the confines of the church. In Los Angeles alone, Lutheran Minister Rodney Lensch claims, there are hundreds of glossolalia cells. One of the few parishes that openly espouses the charismatic approach is the Church of the Good Shepherd in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Its pastor, the Rev. Lloyd Weber of the United Church of Christ, had long been interested in Pentecostalism, and says that he received the "gift of tongues" three years ago. He gradually introduced his parishioners to the practice, and glossolalia prayers are now a regular feature of Sunday worship...
...charismatic movement argue that it is fundamentally an unhealthy cult experience, which tends to separate the gifted illuminati from the majority of believers. California Psychologist Dr. Paul Morentz believes that it thrives among insecure personalities who are in desperate need of certitude. On the other hand, the Rev. Larry Christianson of Trinity Lutheran Church in San Pedro, Calif., contends that the gifts are "God's answer to the hyperintellectualism of our age" and the cold impersonality of formal worship. Surprisingly, even some Roman Catholic participants at the Dayton conference were cautiously optimistic about the prospect of incorporating glossolalia...
Approval of the manifesto was largely the work of the Baptists' outgoing president, the Rev. Franklin Paschall, a Nashville liberal who had to face loud and sometimes bitter minority opposition in pushing it through. Opponents of the measure argued that Baptists should not take stands on secular issues. Most of the messengers seemed to agree with one delegate who answered: "Let's not emasculate the one good thing we have done in 100 years...
...Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, it was unthinkable that God's business should be carried out with less professional dispatch than man's. Gavel in hand, he presided over ecumenical gatherings or sessions of his Lutheran Church in America with the cool parliamentary aplomb of a Speaker of the House-a job for which many of his clerical admirers thought him well-suited. Yet he was also a man of deep faith who saw the unification of divided Christendom as a divine imperative for the twentieth century. When he died of cancer last week...