Word: methodistic
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...crucial blow may well have been Hughes' unusual beliefs, which in recent months have become a matter of increasing press scrutiny. Hughes is a Methodist lay minister who believes in faith healing, extrasensory perception and spiritualism. He has attended seances, and believes that at one of them he was able to communicate with the spirit of a brother killed in an automobile accident. Hughes intimates knew that the end was near when the Senator consented to a long newspaper interview two weeks ago that explored his beliefs...
...more solidly liberal denominations, in which minuscule bands of right-wingers are less important than growing minorities of a more moderate conservative opposition. In the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), an articulate new moderate group called "Disciples Concerned" is earning notice. In the mighty 10,700,000-member United Methodist Church, the most successful opposition comes from a movement known as the "Good News" Methodists, named after a quarterly magazine published by the Rev. Charles Keysor of Grace Methodist Church in Elgin, III. Keysor emphasizes the importance of preaching the Gospel to modern man and champions a return to enlightened...
...Edward Gardiner Latch, a Methodist and long a pastor of the Nixon family, led the couple through a ten-minute ceremony that Tricia had prepared with Ed's approval. "To love," he began, "is to appreciate and cherish our beloved as a unique person, deep, extraordinary, exceptional. It is to visualize him or her as an equal yet complementing individual." As Eddie placed the diamond wedding band on Tricia's finger, she promised to "honor and comfort"-the "obey" was omitted. Eddie kissed his bride gently on the cheek. The rain started again just as the ceremony ended...
...helped themselves by responding to his grace. Pious white Sunday-school art has since made Jesus into an effete Aryan rather than a rugged Jewish carpenter, but that image is hardly more subjective than the contemporary Black Jesus in a dashiki. No more biblically authentic is a recent Presbyterian-Methodist TV spot: Jesus fends off the accusers of the Bible's adulterous woman, but the script omits his admonition: "Sin no more...
...Nixons, the contrast will be all the bleaker after the noise and gaiety of the wedding. Tricia and Eddie will exchange vows in a ten-minute service presided over by the Rev. Edward Gardiner Latch, a Methodist who is the Nixons' old family pastor and chaplain of the House of Representatives. While hardly venturesome as the new improvisational weddings go?Kahlil Gibran will not be recited?the service will be mildly ecumenical. There will be Episcopal (Ed is an Episcopalian) as well as Methodist and Catholic prayers...