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...adults who have active sex lives, and the growing strength of the gay-rights movement. The issues are hitting hardest at the moderate and liberal "mainline" Protestant denominations that stress toleration and follow social currents. These groups, which have been steadily losing membership, could face further attrition, even outright schism, over...
...document was released last February, it was read avidly -- more than 42,000 copies have been sold -- and with growing ire. Before the Baltimore assembly, more than half the church's 171 administrative districts and 2,000 local congregations had condemned it. The document helped cause something akin to schism at the second largest congregation in the country: Dallas' Highland Park Presbyterian Church. Already alarmed at liberal trends among the national leadership, Highland Park members voted 2,563 to 2,001 last month to quit the denomination altogether. They fell short of a required two- thirds majority, so the church...
...other side of the new schism, Irving Kristol, a founder of neoconservatism (and of National Interest), hears in some voices of the neocon chorus "echoes of the 1930s -- echoes of nativism and xenophobia, indifference (or worse) to Nazism and fascism, broad hints of anti-Semitism." He does not name names, but he clearly has in mind Buchanan, who has created a furor by insinuating that Jews fanned the flames of the gulf war. Kristol believes that in an increasingly interdependent world, "Fortress America" is simply not an option...
This week in Atlanta, Vestal will preside as thousands of dissident Baptists plot resistance to the fundamentalist trend. Chapman, for one, thinks the three-day conclave will launch something akin to a schism. At the same time, the fundamentalist leader is confident that few of the 38,000 S.B.C. congregations will join any eventual breakaway...
...reality, something less than a full-blown schism is ahead. The Atlanta meeting will establish a new Baptist Fellowship as the organizational center for those who oppose fundamentalist-dominated programs. For starters, the fellowship will create an agency that could compete with denominational bodies that sponsor home and foreign missionaries. Other groups in the moderate resistance network are already running a news service and planning Sunday- school materials...