Word: revs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paradoxically, mainline churches are being hurt by past success. Many are living off income earned from old wealth and feel no urgency to attract new supporters. They have also been lulled by their social status, which formerly made it possible to attract members without any effort. The Rev. Roger Zimmerman, who is industriously turning around a Disciples of Christ church near downtown Louisville, says that his socially prominent congregation long had a "white glove" mentality: "They didn't reach out and evangelize. They expected people to come of their own accord...
TODAY'S students--Black, white, Asian and Hispanic--are tomorrow's social and political shakers-and-movers. They must shoulder societal and institutional burdens far more intricate in tenacity and complexity than any previous generation of American students ever encountered. Rev. Jesse Jackson, during his visit to the Boston area last month, reflected on the importance of today's students to the resolution of tomorrow's ills when he observed that...
...Rev. Jackson's remarks got me thinking about two recent events relating to Black students at Harvard. One event, the publication by York Eggleston and the Freshman Black Table of their second annual magazine Outlook, pleased me immensely. The other event, a delegation of Black undergraduates to Dean of the College Archie C. Epps' office requesting the legalization at Harvard of Greek-letter fraternities, saddened...
Black students now mesmerized by Black fraternities should turn to this much more serious enterprise--an enterprise that will enable them, in Rev. Jackson's words, to become "alive and alert and sober...sane and serious." This and similar activity focussed not on Black students' bourgeois pretensions but on crises smothering the Black poor will ensure that Black students will not "turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short term pleasures without long-term failures..." Connecting themselves with an ethnic uplift strategy focussed on the Black poor will prepare Black students "to drive America forward...
...only that: apart from a scattering of rock throwing and puncturing of company truck tires, the strikers were following a new strategy of civil disobedience, staging sit-ins and getting themselves arrested for "obstructing free passage." The leaders even called in the Rev. Jesse Jackson to exhort a cheering crowd of 10,000 that gathered in the village of Wise. "The tradition of John L. Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. have come together!" he cried. "You are in pain, but don't panic...