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Jackson was also praised for his efforts to bring new voters into the electoral process, but that praise has always been contingent on Jackson's sincerity in promising to campaign whole-heartedly for the eventual Democratic nominee. And given the almost absolute schism Jackson has created between Black and white voters in recent contests, the Democratic grip on the minority vote may be weaker than in past years...
...members refused to attend last week's meeting, and Israel Francus, former chairman of the seminary's department of Talmud and Rabbinics, said angrily, "We have committed suicide by handing over the whole Conservative movement to the Reform wing." But to many Jewish women the risk of schism is the price of revolution. Declared Susannah Heschel, now 28 and editor of a recent anthology, On Being a Jewish Feminist: "It is so important and noble to be a rabbi...
Vatican II was strikingly different from the 20 other ecclesiastical assemblies that Roman Catholicism ranks as ecumenical. It is the first council that did not face, or leave in its wake, heresy or schism. Councils have always been the church's last-resort response to crisis-from the First Council of Nicaea, summoned by Emperor Constantine in 325 to combat the Arian heresy, to the abortive Vatican I (1869-70), which faced the bewildering effects of the ever-widening industrial revolution...
Sheik Isa's main worry centers on a religious schism within his people. The royal family, along with most of the nation's decision makers, are Sunni Muslims, but some 60% of the country, including most of the poor, belong to the Shi'ite branch of Islam. Bahrain thus is an inviting target for an Islamic revolution imported from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. The island in fact was part of Persia until Sheik Isa's ancestors, who came from Qatar, drove out the Persians in 1783. Since the revolution that brought Ayatullah...
...thing is that black Presbyterians are saying, 'We're going to trust you one more time.' " Another key issue was the policy of the Northern church requiring local congregations to elect women as lay elders. When adopted by U.P.C.U.S.A. in 1979, the rule led to a schism, and it is unpopular in the South. "A congregation has the right to choose its own officers," says the Rev. J. McDowell Richards, a retired P.C.U.S. seminary president and a member of the reunion committee. The pact gives P.C.U.S. congregations a 15-year grace period in which they can apply...