Word: schisms
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Paradoxically, the willingness to scale back First Amendment permissiveness comes when the divisions in American society seem to be at a 25-year low. In the 1960s the battle between flag wavers and flag burners represented a traumatic schism over the Vietnam War and national morality in general. Even in those incendiary times, there was never a serious effort to pass a constitutional amendment. Now the issue has become, so to speak, less burning. With the ideological battles at home in abeyance and challenges from abroad less severe, it would seem that the nation would feel more secure about...
...plans no purges, it will systematically install inerrantists as moderates retire. The seminary in North Carolina has already been torn apart over this effort, and the one in Kentucky will doubtless be next. Meanwhile, desperate anti-Fundamentalis ts are labeling the rival force as power mad and "demonic." A schism does not appear imminent, but as the conflict moves to the state and local level, anti-Fundamentalists may carry out a de facto split, diverting money from the national denomination into their own causes...
When the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was formed in 1983, ending a Civil War- era schism, one of the first tasks was to set forth its beliefs. That effort, complicated by the church's theological diversity, bore fruit last week as a national assembly of the 2.9 million-member denomination gave overwhelming approval to an 80-line "Brief Statement of Faith." After endorsement from regional units, it will join the ten other doctrinal statements that guide Presbyterians. The cleverly crafted text seems traditional enough to prevent the conservative opposition that killed a modernized creed in the Southern branch 14 years...
...news analysis that depicts a schism between conservative and moderate elements in the Republican Club amounts to an unfortunate oversimplification. This view is evinced in the May 21 editorial "Tilting at Windmills." As the dissent ("The Right Isn't Monolithic, Either') aptly points out, however, many conservatives, like myself, find the activities of Peninsula, Summer E. Anderson '92 and clan appalling and an extreme disservice to conservatism and Republicanism. Their apparent disavowal of rights dear to liberal-democratic society is highly distressing. I guess, then, what does make me moderate relative (oops) to these extremists is that...
...offer "spiritual and cultural liberation" to poorer blacks as well. Says he: "We teach them that they can free themselves through their unique history and culture." Unfortunately, the pressing need for such cultural affirmation among the nation's 2 million black Catholics has become obscured, both by Stallings' schism and by the moral accusations against...