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Asmussen has a wife and two children, yet he feels that Protestant ministers would be better off unmarried. "In times of crisis, such as we are entering," he says, "a clergyman's loyalty should not have to be divided between duties toward his brethren and care for his family. Marriage is a poor basis for martyrdom...
...church was moved to Marble, which was having a boom of its own. St. Paul's belonged to the Episcopalians, but after Marble's once famous quarries*closed down, in 1941, the Episcopal Church stopped using it, and other denominations - Roman Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, United Brethren, Dutch Reformed, Mor mons - worshiped there from time to time because it was the only church in town. But no group was maintaining it, and St. Paul's was falling apart...
...descendants handle filthy lucre as little as possible, but this is obviously difficult when traveling in an age of gas stations motels and Howard Johnsons. Last week at a Franciscan financial conference at St. Francis College, Loretto, Pa., U.S Franciscans heard of a happy compromise used by their Canadian brethren. Surprisingly, it is the same solution used by man non-Franciscans not sworn to poverty but headed for it. The device: credit cards...
...Shakers of Hancock, Mass., meant it. They prepared their spotless robes by maintaining strict celibacy in their community of 200-odd men and women-cohabitation of married couples was forbidden, and "sisters" and "brethren" had separate entrances and hallways in their houses. They lived lives of calculated simplicity, sheltered the indigent and orphaned, and diligently tried to carry out the teaching of their founder: "Put your hands to work and your hearts...
Meeting in another part of the same hotel, Evangelical and Reformed delegates, like their Congregationalist brethren, rushed through last-minute resolutions to clear the decks for both groups to meet jointly this week as the new United Church of Christ...