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...Loud cheers in the House of Commons greeted Home Secretary Henry Brooke's comment that Justice Davies proved that judges "are not afraid of imposing deterrent sentences." The Conservative Daily Express saluted them as "a measure of the com munity's need for defense." But perennially angry Methodist Dr. Donald Soper called them "miserable and dreadfully unchristian." The Daily Herald pointed out that the train robbers were not armed, saw the sentences threatening Britain's "great technical and ethical difference between crimes at gunpoint and crimes without guns." Since even murderers often serve an average of only...
...crucial question of the ministry, the Methodists declared themselves strongly opposed to the Episcopal doctrine of the apostolic succession of bishops, as well as to the United Church's and the Disciples' belief in the autonomy of local congregations. Because such differences remain, the Methodist delegates decided not to ask their church's quadrennial General Conference this month for authority to help draft a formal plan of union. With that, the Episcopalians also decided that they would like to think things over...
...have no formal set of beliefs or doctrines, but rather a broad concept of Christian unity, which is perhaps reflected in Johnson's own wide-ranging churchgoing habits. Since Nov. 22 he has worshiped at: Washington's National City Christian Church; the Harriet Chapel, a little Methodist church near Camp David, Md.; St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington; St. John's Episcopal Church, on Lafayette Square across from the White House; Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church in Washington; and St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, Texas, an old log cabin that can seat 30 people...
Chaplain of the Tribe. Johnson goes often to Episcopal churches because Lady Bird, although raised a Methodist, became an Episcopalian after going to St. Mary's, an Episcopal junior college in Dallas. The Johnsons were married in an Episcopal church in San Antonio, and both Luci Baines and Lynda Bird are Episcopalians. At Camp Mystic in Texas, where she spent many summers, Luci often served as chaplain of her tribe because she could "pray so well when called on unexpectedly...
...Christian Advocate, official biweekly of the Methodist Church, responded by charging that Johnson was "the victim of some faulty theological advice," and called the notion of putting up a memorial to God a "semantic blunder" because it "speaks of God in the past tense." Christianity Today, a conservative Protestant biweekly, said that while it would welcome "a recognition of the historical Christian roots of the nation," the idea of a monument to a generalized God should be dropped...