Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not abandon this place," cried the Rev. Ralph Abernathy in Resurrection City, the 15-acre Washington campground staked out by the Poor People's Campaign. But at least one-third of an estimated 3,000 residents pulled out of it as more than two inches of rain fell during one 30-hour period, blanketing the once-grassy meadow with a six-inch impasto of mud. Abernathy himself spent his nights elsewhere until a band of Negro militants invaded his hotel. Though they were turned back by staff members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Abernathy, chagrined, moved into...
...marched into the cafeteria of the Agriculture Department, piled their trays high with food, then refused to pay the $292.66 tab. "We're going to balance it off against what the Agriculture Department owes us for all the lunch programs that we didn't get," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Next day Abernathy hurried over to the department to pay the bill, and soon thereafter Jackson was replaced as "manager" of Resurrection City by veteran S.C.L.C. Organizer Hosea Williams...
...churches as irrelevant or unimportant. Nonetheless, Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford thinks that there may be "more religion among students who now act on their conscience than among those who sit in church every Sunday seeking to be blessed." The Protestant dean of chapel at Stanford, the Rev. B. Davie Napier, enthusiastically endorses this year's seniors, who, he says, "embrace an authentic, courageous morality that sees obscenity where it really is?in all schemes that thwart the realization of full humanity anywhere, from the campus to Saigon, or to hell and back...
Presbyterian Leader Rev. Henry Anderson of Illinois defends baptism as a genuine covenant, a "real and authentic religious act, the grace of God's concern for his people through the parents as mediators...
Died. The Rev. J. Franklin Ewing, 62, Roman Catholic priest and noted anthropologist at Fordham University, who believed in Darwin's theory of evolution while also holding that God created the climate in which living creatures could evolve; after a long illness; in Peekskill, N.Y. Leader of several anthropological expeditions to the Middle East, he still said God created man, and "whether he used the method of evolution or created him from unorganized matter is not of primary importance...