Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even song lyrics among the mountains of background material was performed by Researchers Nancy Chase, Mary Kelley, Leila Little, Marion Pikul, Helen Prince, Mary McConachie, Michele Stephenson and Jane Van Tassel. To garner the most provocative ideas for their files, TIME correspondents around the world questioned historians, philosophers, ecologists, clergymen, politicians and businessmen. The reporting group was made up of 20 correspondents and 20 stringers. Major files came from a special Washington team directed by TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele and including Donn Downing, Richard Saltonstall, John Stacks, Arthur White and Marvin...
...pondering again some of the issues that space travel raises for faith. In churches and synagogues, the flight of Apollo 8 was a favorite topic for sermons, particularly because of the astronauts' reading the opening verses of Genesis as a Christmas Eve message to mankind.* A number of clergymen feel that growing knowledge of the immensity of the universe may prove to be a stimulus to renewed faith in God the creator. Contemplating the sight of the earth seen from thousands of miles in space, observes Episcopal Chaplain Malcolm Boyd, "might open up new dimensions in conceiving...
...hotel. In protest against what they considered a racial slight, the 400 black ministers attending the meeting stalked out of the Gateway and finished their convention in an Episcopal church. The incident typified not only the touchy militancy of the conference but, in general, the mood of Negro Christian clergymen who enthusiastically support the contemporary secular demand for Black Power. Black caucuses have been formed within most of the major denominations to lobby for greater Negro participation in ecclesiastical decision making...
...United Church is only 2% black. Another problem, particularly for those churches which emphasize lay authority, is that the majority of white congregations still tend to be reluctant to accept a black minister in the pulpit, even when a well-qualified one is available. As a result, many Negro clergymen are turning away from the goal of parish-level integration and are focusing their attention on the revitalization of all-black congregations...
...Pastoral Renewal, an organization of renewal-minded priests and laymen, 463 clerics have resigned from the active priesthood so far this year, compared with 400 in all 1967. That figure may be conservative. A group called Bearings for Re-Establishment, which operates offices in three cities to counsel disaffected clergymen and to help them find new jobs, claims that 1,000 applications for assistance have been processed so far this year...