Word: methodistically
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...morning and often earlier on Sundays, the red-and-cream Nash convertible cuts out from a modest house in Hollywood Hills and hums along Santa Monica Boulevard. The wiry, 52-year-old cleric behind the wheel of what he calls an "old man's sports car" is a Methodist bishop. He is so much of a bishop, in fact-and so far from being an old man-that this month he takes over the top job in his ten-million-member denomination. Gerald Hamilton Kennedy's new post: president of the Methodist Council of Bishops. In this office...
...past eight years, as spiritual shepherd of Methodists in Southern California, Arizona and Hawaii, Bishop Kennedy has proved himself a tireless circuit rider. His 403 churches span 2,500 miles, embrace 225,000 members. He visits them all (he once dropped in on 23 parishes in one month) and averages seven sermons or speeches a week. Amid all his momentum, Bishop Kennedy can be pungently articulate. Examples: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: "It simply doesn't work. Look at the crime rates." AMERICAN EDUCATION : "A kind of state-supported baby-sitting service." SOUTH AFRICA: "The foundation of law has been destroyed...
...last week upon local police stations-without their passbooks, without arms, without violence-and demand to be arrested. In a few spots, the turnout was impressive. At Orlando township in the outskirts of Johannesburg, 20,000 Africans milled around the police station, led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 36, a Methodist-reared university instructor, who heads the Pan-African Congress. Fifteen miles to the south, in Evaton, 70,000 Africans turned out. The nervous police made few arrests of the demonstrators; at Langa, near Cape Town, they opened fire to disperse the Africans, killing three and wounding...
...California, sink oil derricks off Louisiana, scrounge for sponge and pearl in the Mediterranean, raise cannon, coins and crucifixes from Spanish galleons sunk off Florida, and hoist history from ancient submerged towns such as Epidauros, which disappeared in a tidal wave off Yugoslavia in A.D. 365. Last week a Methodist minister and sometime oceanographer from Kansas City donned an Aqua-Lung and plunged into the Dead Sea-avowedly in search of the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...
...criminal's life as an act of collective self-defense, and a spokesman of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod says that "the Bible seems to permit the possibility of capital punishment." Several of the other religious groups in the U.S. have taken stands against capital punishment: the Methodist Church, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...