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...that in some respects the new morality is a healthy advance, as a genuine effort to take literally St. Paul's teachings that through Christ "we are delivered from the law." "Lists of cans and cannots are meaningless," said Princeton's Paul Ramsey. Yale's Protestant chaplain, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, similarly approved the new morality's concept of "guideposts" rather than "hitching posts," although he thought that the church would have to be restructured to accept it as a way of life...
Both efforts to paraphrase the Bible in reform-school jargon were inspired by the Rev. Carl F. Burke, 45, the detention home's Protestant chaplain, who believes that the language of the Gospel is puzzling and irrelevant to children from urban slums. Burke formed this opinion at a summer camp for delinquents, when he tried to explain to a boy from a broken home that God was like a father. "Oh, yeah?" the boy answered. "If he's anything like my old man, I hate...
...easy to marry the girl you love, but hard to love the girl you marry," William S. Coffin, Chaplain of Yale University, told a Divinity School conference on "The Church and the New Morality" yesterday...
...popular, though Christian. The real-life problem has apparently confronted Frederick Buechner, 38, a talented proseur (A Long Day's Dying, The Return of Ansel Gibbs) who was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1958 and now serves as chaplain at Phillips Exeter Academy. In this precious pseudoreligious novel, the author sounds like an eager young padre at a prep-school bull session, the type who yanks off his collar, chug-a-lugs a yard of beer, belches a couple of four-letter words, and in general suggests that in the beginning was the dirty word...
...former Army chaplain in Korea, Wine studied philosophy at the University of Michigan, graduated from Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College in 1956. Two years ago, he urged a group of Detroit Jews who were doubtful of their faith to start their own congregation; last July, after the expiration of his contract at Temple Beth-El in Windsor, Ont., Wine moved across the river to serve as their rabbi. Since then, Birmingham Temple has grown from eight families to more than 140, most of them young couples...