Word: methodistically
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...they try hard to avoid, such as 1) any auditorium with cupids on the walls, although "Bobby Darin might not mind it," says Gottlieb; 2) Las Vegas, a place "I would gladly join an organization to eradicate"; and 3) the Jack Paar Show, which "is like listening to a Methodist minister who has had four martinis...
...faculty, Lawson was expelled from the university's divinity school (TIME, June 13, 1960) for advocating civil disobedience to fellow students who took part in Nashville's sit-in campaigns. Lawson went on to get his degree from Boston University, now is pastor of the Scott Chapel Methodist Church in Shelbyville, Tenn. Between religious services, he teaches workshops in "nonviolent action" and acts as vice president of the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference...
...hands placed on his head in ordination. They insist on the laying on of hands. But some Congregationalists and Presbyterians who would be made into bishops in the new church are inclined to say 'Nobody's going to lay a hand on me.' And there are Methodist bishops who would balk at another ordination ceremony on the ground that it makes their present ordination seem invalid...
Among Presbyterians themselves, Blake thinks the main obstacle to union is reluctance to have bishops. As for the Congregationalist members of the United Church of Christ, the greatest difficulty will come in becoming a church rather than a loose association of autonomous congregations. Among Methodists, says Blake, the problem is "mathematics-sheer size. The Methodist-Episcopalian reunion talks, which have been going on officially for 13 years, are laboring under the difficulty that the Methodists outnumber the Episcopalians 3 to 1. But in the four-church merger I have proposed, it wouldn't be like that...
...English translation prepared and directed by representatives of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, The Church of England, The Church of Scotland, The Congretional Union of England and Wales, The Council of Churches for Wales, The London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, The Methodist Church of Great Britain, The Presbyterian Church of England, The United Council of Christian Churches and Religious Communions in Ireland, The British and Foreign Bible Society, and The National Bible Society of Scotland. New York, 1961, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press...