Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the different faiths of the presiding clergymen, the half-hour service is recognizably Protestant in style. It usually begins with a Christian doxology and a short prayer, followed by a hymn -such solid traditional fare as Faith of Our Fathers or O God, Our Help in Ages Past-led by a visiting choir. The sermons, about twelve minutes long, are usually extemporaneous. Pat Nixon calls them "little gems" and plans to privately publish a collection in booklet form. There follows another hymn, benediction, and adjournment to the State Dining Room for coffee and sweet rolls...
...street is being brutalized by a police officer, that should be my concern. It's the whole goddamned thing of 'don't get involved.' " By getting involved, Ditto is molding powerless people into a significant force. Despite the reservations of many whites, the East Side clergymen and the blue-chip board of New Detroit are betting it will be a force for good. Says Baldwin: "We are nobodies. Frank Ditto is a nobody. We must come together at this level-a thousand nobodies...
March 10: The Divinity School's group of black students formally lodged their protest against the school's committee report on educating black clergymen. The students said they were "distressed by the racist paternalistic assumptions" in the report--especially in the sections dealing with remedial education programs for black students without adequate preparation...
...supported the proposal that churches compensate those who had been "exploited" by a capitalistic system. The Christian churches, the delegates reported, had "not only tolerated but also profited from" the system. Of all the meeting's decisions, this was perhaps the one of greatest practical concern to American clergymen. Ever since he disrupted a Sunday service at Manhattan's Riverside Church with his demand for $500 million in reparations for American blacks ("$15 per nigger"), James Forman's Black Manifesto (TIME, May 16) has become one of the most hotly debated issues in U.S. churches...
...firm rejection by American clergymen of the violence implicit in Forman's manifesto means that the London recommendations may not win easy acceptance at the World Council's next Central Committee meeting in August. After he returned to New York last week, General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake of the World Council wondered whimsically whether the black militants would be as eager to take over the church's debts as its assets. Even the place where it all began was not inclined to court more trouble. Although Riverside Church has promised to establish a fund for the disadvantaged...