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...Methodist theological seminaries had better get cracking with a program to train future ministers in talking religion to creatures in outer space, said Washington's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam in Pittsburgh last week. Speaking at a meeting in Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the organization of U.S. Methodism, Bishop Oxnam said...
...Senate race, the G.O.P. so far seems able to muster only token opposition against him (three relative unknowns announced for the Republican primary), will concentrate instead on an effort to win back the statehouse (three announced, among them Attorney General Norman Erbe). A Methodist who would like to be Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy's vice presidential running mate, Loveless will probably have little to say about foreign affairs in his senatorial campaign, but much to say about the farm program; he wants a minimum farm income to match labor's minimum wage. This is a formula that...
Racial segregation should be continued in the Methodist Church for the foreseeable future, a 70-member Methodist commission reported last week. There was no minority dissent to the report, which was based on four years of study and hearings in 24 cities. Moreover, leaders of the 360,000 Methodist Negroes (out of the 10 miliion total membership) agreed with the decision...
...Methodism was then divided into five regional jurisdictions, each almost entirely white, and one so-called Central Jurisdiction overlapping them all, and exclusively Negro. But this segregation brought some advantages for Negro Methodists in terms of representation and influence in the church. The Central Jurisdiction elects its own bishops and has equal representation on national councils. Thus Negroes cut far more Methodist ice than would otherwise be the case; there are four Negro Methodist bishops in the Central Jurisdiction, for instance, while the theoretically nonsegregated Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. has none at all in the continental...
...legislate the immediate elimination of the Central Jurisdiction," said the report, "would be harmful to the church and especially disastrous to Negro Methodists." Attorney Charles C. Parlin, a vice president of the National Council of Churches, who headed the commission, believes that integration now would turn Methodist Negroes into "a hopeless minority." But he added: "Eventually, the Central Jurisdiction is doomed. It will go one way or another. It's the trend of the times...