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Slices of Life. Not all religious television, of course, displays a richness of imagination. Some of the programs produced by the churches' own television divisions and syndicated to stations individually are almost as cliche-ridden as a Hollywood comedy series. The Missouri Synod's This Is the Life, which is shown on 375 stations, frequently features pious family dramas with all too obvious moral points. One recent slice of Life told of a critically ill boy who asked to see his father. The plot focused on the search for the man, a stevedore who had walked...
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
Paul, when he set up an advisory Synod of Bishops, also gave positive meaning to the concept of collegiality enunciated by the council. In pursuit of Christian unity, Paul and Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople last week issued a joint statement deploring the mutual excommunications that Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders had hurled at each other in 1054. Within months, it is expected that Paul will announce changes in Catholic discipline, such as a relaxation of the rules against mixed marriages and abolition of the compulsory Friday abstinence from meat...
Stephanopoulos ordered them to stop in the name of the law, but they ignored him. Young King Constantine signed a decree terminating the Assembly, but one bishop contemptuously tore it off the synod gate. Shrugging off a warning from the Ministry of Justice that they were committing a crime by electing and transferring bishops, the Assembly last week kept on sending them off to churches to be consecrated in affluent new jobs. The attendant congregations, instead of greeting the prelates with the liturgical chant of "Worthy, worthy," shouted "Unworthy! Unworthy!" and exchanged kicks and blows with the bishops' partisans...
...least momentarily, when the Cabinet passed a draft bill that would depose the Assembly, appoint one in its place from the nonrebellious bishops and reform the method of paying bishops. The rebels countered with a threat to excommunicate any bishop who agreed to serve on the government-appointed synod, to cast an anathema on the government, to close every church in Greece and order priests not to perform marriages and christenings...