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Because they disagree with their parent churches over matters as varied as theology, politics and civil rights, some Protestant congregations in the South would like to divorce themselves from their national organizations. It is not easy. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the arguments of two breakaway congregations...
Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation.
Even though Blake and his colleagues occasionally looked like beleaguered Daniels in a fundamentalist's lions' den, their choice of Tulsa was a deliberate one. "We saw it not as a way of taking on Hargis," said a council spokesman, Faith Pomponio, "but as a way of communication...
Democratic Touch. The visiting churchmen had more important issues to face than Hargis-style hostility. In its two decades of existence, the World Council has grown into an organization of 232 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with a total constituency of more than 300 million people. Yet its ecumenical mission...
Pet Hate. However, the women of the play-a farmer's wife, his daughter and his maid-are delighted with this "saucy bird." O'Casey saw the repressed and persecuted Irish female as the repository of all that was open and joyous and life-loving in his native...