Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever became of the death of God? Three years ago it was the most fiercely debated issue in American theology (TIME cover, April 8, 1966). Scholarly journals were thick with discussions of it. No sermon topic was more popular; pulpits rang with denunciations from righteous clergymen. Today, one of the chief apostles of the movement, Thomas Altizer, is quietly teaching English on Long Island. The journals and sermons have turned to other themes. Was it just a passing theological fad? A small idea blown out of proportion by pulpit and press? Or a real cri de coeur, saying something valid...
...very bad year for the town of Salem, Mass. During a summer of superstitious hysteria, grim events took place there that have permanently tarnished the popular American memory of its Puritan past. According to widely accepted tradition, the whole thing was whipped up by Cotton Mather and the lesser clergymen of a frowning theocracy. Before it was over, the story goes, 19 men and women were convicted and hanged as witches, and one man was pressed to death beneath large rocks for refusing to plead. The tradition holds that the executions were the result of a repressive fanaticism...
...jail, promises "demonstrations, confrontations and more activity on the picket lines for as long as it takes." Aside from 1199's help, the workers were pleasantly surprised by support from predominantly white South Carolina labor groups, some of which have been traditionally standoffish toward Negro organizations. White clergymen have been active in a citizens' committee raising funds for the workers. Says Father William Joyce of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church: "We are promoting the humanitarian, God-given right of people to organize for their own protection and betterment...
...rather mild, even in an Easter week following the Eisenhower funeral. Comedian David Steinberg's retelling of the story of Jonah was more in the vein of Mark Twain than Lenny Bruce. Jonah, in Steinberg's version, was swallowed by a giant guppy. Many clergymen appreciate Steinberg's mischievous Biblical homilies and he has often been invited to speak in churches and temples. "Because new types of humor seem foreign to people, they assume that they must be in bad taste," says the impish Steinberg, who is now sermonizing at Manhattan's Bitter End. "What they...
...Royko wrote. "That's why I am starting a noninflationary, low-cost fund drive of my very own. About $600 or $700 will do the trick." It is needed, he said, by Roy Ries Jr., a Presbyterian seminarian who had tried to avoid violence by standing with other clergymen between police and demonstrators. Ries, Royko claims, received a fractured skull and still has blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow on the head inflicted by a cop. The police-fund drive should be bigger, Royko conceded, because "Seminarian Ries contributed much less to the convention drama than...