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...Have the butchers of Budapest left yet?" asked an irate matron after Sunday services at Tulsa's big grey Gothic First Presbyterian Church. "I don't know what you mean, ma'am," replied a local cleric impishly. "There's nobody here but us Christians." That seemed to be the case in the Oklahoma oil capital last week. For the first time in its history, the executive committee of the World Council of Churches held one of its semiannual meetings near the buckle of what used to be known as the Bible Belt...
Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation...
...Christian-leadership meetings at which he roundly denounced the World Council as far left and ungodly. Despite a freezing rain, the Rev. Carl Mclntire of Collingswood, N.J., head of the extreme-right-wing International Council of Christian Churches, personally picketed Nikodim while he was delivering a sermon at Tulsa's First Christian Church. Another veteran anti-Red, the Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, a Rumanian Lutheran pastor who spent 18 years in Communist prisons, interrupted a World Council press conference. When the organization's general secretary, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, tried to still him, Wurmbrand shouted: "Call the police...
Even though Blake and his colleagues occasionally looked like beleaguered Daniels in a fundamentalist's lions' den, their choice of Tulsa was a deliberate one. "We saw it not as a way of taking on Hargis," said a council spokesman, Faith Pomponio, "but as a way of communication with his people." In fact, most of Tulsa's Protestant clergymen were cordial, and Republican Mayor James Hewgley was almost lyrical in his welcome: "The Lord sent them here." Even Hargis paid the council a backhanded compliment. "The cause of religious fundamentalism," he complained, has been "set back...
...past few months, Rosemary has also been helping to select and prepare the material for a traveling exhibition of TIME'S cover art. The show, containing 75 examples of portraiture, sculpture and caricature, opened in Tulsa's Philbrook Art Center last week. During the next 15 months it will travel to at least nine other U.S. and Canadian cities...