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...suggests that religion is not saying anything helpful about morality for teenagers, who consequently have to fall back on their common sense. To Dean Robert Fitch of the Pacific School of Religion, that seems to be the best solution after all. In the current issue of the Christian Century, Congregationalist Fitch advocates a code of sexual morality with its roots in reason, not revelation. His five-point argument...
...history, the ten successors ran the corporation, reluctantly agreed to give graduates representation in 1871. In earlier times, the ten were invariably Congregational ministers from Connecticut, like Yale's founding fathers. This pattern was smashed in 1905: the corporation admitted a Congregational minister from New York. The only Congregationalist left is Amos N. Wilder, a Harvard divinity professor, who must retire this year...
...Presbyterians Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called the River Brethren and became a Presbyterian largely because of his wife Mamie) joined churches only after their inaugurations. Nevertheless, more fervently than other modern leaders, they preached that the moral strength of U.S. democracy depends on a devout...
...permissiveness, they have little to rebel against. Parents, educators and the guardians of morality at large do pull themselves together to say "don't," but they usually sound halfhearted. Closed minds have not disappeared, but as a society, the U.S. seems to be dominated by what Congregationalist Minister and Educator Robert Elliot Fitch calls an "orgy of open-mindedness." Faith and principle are far from dead-but what stands out is an often desperate search for "new standards...
...Congregationalist Minister John Bennett is a self-effacing theologian with some eyebrow-raising views about the duty of churches not to join any holy war against Communism. Protestant churchmen respect Bennett as a methodical, thoughtful interpreter of social ethics, as a provocative religious journalist (he was a founder of the biweekly Christianity and Crisis), and as a tireless behind-the-scenes worker for the World Council of Churches. Like his predecessor, he is Union-made: he studied theology there, joined the faculty permanently...