Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judging from the way they have been talking, it seems that a lot of Protestant ministers consider the local church as obsolete as the village well. Now, however, there is new vitality in many parishes. Its source: the idea of the servant church. At some cost to formal worship, usually quite candidly acknowledged, hundreds of churches are turning more and more to work in the world...
...past. The 74-year-old Judson Memorial Church, in New York's Greenwich Village, has avant-garde movies, a dance theater, a theater, and an art gallery that was one of the first to display pop and happenings. Some of this esthetic interest has spilled over into the worship at Judson Memorial, most of whose 140 parishioners are not bearded beats but middle-class Manhattanites. Encouraged by Pastor Howard Moody, a Baptist, the congregants composed their own Thanksgiving Day jazz service, and one Ash Wednesday service featured a dancer who, to the accompaniment of Negro blues, doused himself...
...Services. If the church is essentially God's people, why does a parish need a church building at all? The parishioners of Cherry Knolls United Church near Denver do not think they do, and have done surprisingly well without one. Organized into three colonies, the parishioners conduct their worship services in the evenings at congregants' homes. On Sundays, some of the parishioners do show up for services at what they call "Colony House"-the double garage of Pastor S. Macon Cowles's house converted into a chapel. To carry out the mission, parishioners are organized into task...
...Worship-directed churches, which seek God in traditional prayer, still form the majority in the U.S. The new kind of man-directed church, which finds God by ministering to daily problems, still has to persuade millions of its rightness in putting service before services. "This is the only way to practice Christianity," argues Cherry Knolls Parishioner Tim Ronzio. "It is only when you help your fellow man that you are walking...
...Christian paradox that Protestants and Roman Catholics, separated in worship, are coming together quite naturally at the level where doctrine and theology are studied. Manhattan's Protestant Union Theological Seminary and Jesuit-run Fordham University are about to take the next ecumenical step forward by creating what may grow into a common graduate program in theology. Beginning in September, the two institutions will share libraries and accept each other's credits for graduate degrees; each school, moreover, will list in its catalogue five courses available at the other institution. As a start to ward an exchange of professors...