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Manhattan's Federal Judge Harold Medina, one of the notable jurists in Dallas for the opening of Southern Methodist University's new Legal Center (see EDUCATION) doffed his formal grey Homburg for a blue-green five-gallon Stetson ("I feel like a damn fool in the thing"), then climbed aboard an old stagecoach provided by his host the Dallas Bar Association, rode out to take in his first rodeo and outdoor barbecue at a nearby ranch party...
...them. They are also schools where law students mingle with practicing lawyers, share their common rooms, libraries, dining halls, listen to their shoptalk. Last week, this idea in legal education found its way to Texas in the form of a new $2,500,000 Southwestern Legal Center at Southern Methodist University...
...analyze the course of U.S. Protestantism. Longtime journalist, ordained minister and author (The New Leviathan), he is editor of the Christian Century, has been a member of the Century's staff for over 26 years. In the current issue of the quarterly Religion in Life, 60-year-old Methodist Hutchinson takes a sharp look at the course of U.S. Protestantism during the past half-century. What he finds may point to the future as significantly as it does to the past...
...been toward greater formality in Protestant worship. " 'Churchmanship' is no longer a monopoly of Episcopalians and Lutherans. Stately liturgy has grown commonplace in communions which, five decades ago, were vigorous in their opposition to anything which smacked of 'Romish' tendencies. I worship in a Methodist church where the service today opens with the entrance of an acolyte to light the altar candles and closes when he reappears to snuff them. There is a Unitarian church in Chicago in which a sanctuary light burns constantly...
...word that issues from that pulpit has changed drastically, too. Except in the South, evangelical fervor is on the discard in most of the "leading" Protestant denominations. Methodist Hutchinson is not happy about what has replaced it: "A kind of preaching which, at its best, is in direct descent from the ethical insights of the Old Testament prophets, but which too often is diluted from that into something perilously akin to that careful moralism against which the Evangelical Revival revolted...