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...better solution was propounded by the United Ministry, a group of 21 ministers serving the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Their proposal calls for non-paying Corporation appointments for United Ministry members. This plan embraces a far more complete pluralism which would not require sect-by-sect modification to the number of "Preachers to the University" as congregations and interests varied over time. It would maintain the present, single post of preacher to oversee the entire University's religious life with no denominational limitations...
...audience about their eyes liquefying, their bodies vaporizing and their cities vanishing in a nuclear holocaust. The "end times," he warned, were near. Garner Ted and his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, are the watchful guardians of Pasadena's Worldwide Church of God, a clannish, bizarre, 40-year-old sect (TIME, May 15, 1972) that has made the end times something of a stock in trade. Now it appears that Founder Herbert and Heir Apparent Garner Ted may be approaching an end time of their own-at least the end of their tightfisted, monolithic control of their prosperous church.* This...
...freakish fringe of religion is changing so fast these days that fiction cannot keep up with reality. Last week ABC Television presented Can Ellen Be Saved?, a TV movie that depicted an aggressive, doctrinaire Jesus sect called the Children of Jesus. The fictitious sect was obviously a thinly disguised counterpart of the real-life Children of God, complete with a West Coast farming commune, buses that sweep into cities to pick up new converts, biblical aliases for the members and a frank affection for the money and property gleaned from converts...
...United Nations Plaza in New York City warning Americans to flee. A good many of the Children took their own advice, removing themselves also from the scrutiny of New York State's attorney general, whose charity frauds bureau last month issued a 23-page report on the sect and recommended that its questionable activities come "under the umbrella of state regulation and scrutiny...
...Harrisburg, polling indicated that women would be more friendly to the defense than men. They promised to be harsher in Gainesville, and the same as men in St. Paul. Following their predictive profiles, the defense looked in Harrisburg for working-class Lutherans, Roman Catholics and Brethren, a pacifist sect in the area. In Gainesville, defense lawyers tried to choose high-status Episcopal and Presbyterian professionals...