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Taking a long look beyond the crash problems and crash solutions of the present, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., gathered in triennial convention in St. Louis last week, talked eloquently of the problems of the long haul...
...fourth triennial conference of the Inter-Seminary Movement, sponsored by the National Council of Churches at Ohio's Oberlin College, The Netherlands' Dr. Willem A. Visser't Hooft told 500 Protestant theology students to be both "slaves and spokesmen'' of Christianity. Said Dr. Visser't Hooft. general secretary of the World Council of Churches and a minister of The Netherlands Reformed Church: "There is a new search for authority in the world today [and ] insofar as we are slaves and spokesmen, the minister has the same authority as Christ." This authority is "total...
Last week the Teamsters were obviously on the mind of doughty David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a member of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ethical-practices committee. Said Dubinsky at the opening session of the I.L.G.W.U.'s 29th triennial convention in Atlantic City: labor leaders who double as businessmen in the same fields are "immoral, unethical, unfit to serve the labor movement." Though he named no names, none in the hall doubted that the charge was aimed especially at the Teamsters. They were sure when Dubinsky suggested that unions should expel such leaders without waiting...
Surrounded by the volcanoes of Honolulu, the delegates to the 58th triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church appropriately reminded themselves of Asia's explosive situation. The customary pastoral letter of the House of Bishops (which must be read to all Episcopal congregations within the month) pointed to "a tidal upheaval of deprived, hungry peoples struggling for food and nationhood and full human status and acceptance" in lands into which "half the population of God's world" is crowded...
...Voted to hold the next triennial convention (Oct. 5, 1958) in Miami Beach, after hearing assurances that there would be no taint of the racial segregation that caused the 1955 convention to be switched to Honolulu from Houston...