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...other denominations set the pace in social action. Now, the Episcopal Church is a pacesetter-and in turmoil as a result. The division was nowhere more evident than during the past two weeks in Houston, where the laity and clergy of the Episcopal Church met for their triennial General Convention...
...lately. Critics-many of them inside the N.C.C. -argue that its cumbersome bureaucracy can do little more than issue position papers on current problems, and that practical accomplishments like its controversial Delta Ministry, which works among poor Mississippi Negroes, are rare exceptions. During preparations for this month's triennial general assembly in Detroit, Christian Century predicted that the N.C.C. would see "a crunch of intense feelings and an unleashing of the urge to tell it like it is." The crunch came last week in Detroit's Cobo Hall. In its meetings, at least, the N.C.C. was clearly...
...paper, it looked like a shoo-in for the East. The Moscow Philharmonic, one of Europe's best, had come to Bucharest to play in the triennial Georges Enesco Festival with a repertory of surefire, splashy Russian music. On hand as challenger was the parvenu Los Angeles Philharmonic on a State Department-sponsored visit. To stack the cards even further, festival officials told Conductor Zubin Mehta that he must remove the scheduled Tchaikovsky Fourth from his program; Russian music, Mehta was informed, belonged to Russian orchestras. With concerts by the two ensembles scheduled only 24 hours apart, observers watched...
...much as any other U.S. denomination, the Episcopal Church has made clear its belief that racism and inequality are among the great social evils of the age. Precisely how to implement that conviction proved to be a major issue at the opening sessions of the church's triennial General Convention in Seattle last week. In his opening state-of-the-church address, Presiding Bishop John E. Hines declared that the racial crisis "can be as fatal to the well-being of this nation as anything short of a nuclear holocaust" and proposed that the church spend $3 million...
Citing a need for "significant action," the committee proposed reforms that will be considered at the triennial General Convention of the church in Seattle later this month. Among the recommendations...