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...violence and medicocrity make contemporary television programming a "vast wasteland" which "squanders the public's airwaves." And, in words even less welcome to his audience, he promised the use the now virtually dormant powers of the FCC to improve the quality of programs. Specifically, he promised to make the triennial renewal of station licenses more than a formality, and, through public hearings, demand that the stations prove that they are living up to their pledge to operate "in the public interest...
Pulling & Hauling. As Stated Clerk (executive head) of the United Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. and onetime president (1954-57) of the National Council of Churches, Dr. Blake was in San Francisco for the National Council's fifth triennial general assembly. He had been invited by California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike to be guest preacher at the pulpit of Grace Cathedral. When he sat down to think out his sermon about six weeks ago, it turned into a preachment that may well be a landmark in Protestant history...
Episcopalians number 3.2 million children and adults* under a Presiding Bishop. The legislative body of the church is the triennial general convention, with two houses: deputies (both clerical and lay) and bishops. Individuals have considerable freedom as to belief, but Episcopalians (the U.S. version of Anglicans) believe they have the apostolic succession in their bishops, acquired before the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church. Chief sacraments are baptism and communion, in which Christ is considered a real presence. In contrast to the other denominations, Episcopalians consider confirmation, penance, ordination, unction and matrimony as sacramental...
...days, in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, 1,000 delegates to the 44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination (2,200,000 members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re-elected Dr. John W. Behnken president for another three-year term. To 75-year-old Dr. Behnken, who has headed the synod for the past 24 years, sound and solid doctrinal agreement is the only safe basis of collaboration with any other church body; his election is a guarantee that the Missouri...
...59th triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church wound up two weeks in Miami with a 2,500-word pastoral letter from the House of Bishops that will be read in each of the 7,290 Episcopal churches in the U.S. The bishops set forth what they called five great truths. Perhaps the most significant point, backed by a separate resolution urging compliance with the Supreme Court decision on integration in public schools, concerned justice in racial matters...