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Eleven ministers are nervously keeping their December datebooks as open as they can this year. Reason: they are on the hush-hush list of semifinalists who hope to become the next minister of Riverside Church, the ritzy Manhattan citadel of Protestant liberalism. This week a lucky three or four among...
Riverside's elaborate hunt for William Sloane Coffin's successor typifies the method by which most of America's 300,000 Protestant congregations, large and small, find spiritual leaders. Lay members serving on a search committee may spend a year in unpaid toil, scanning l00 dossiers, listening to sermon tapes...
San Francisco Dignity members may now simply attend Mass in parishes that have large numbers of homosexuals but do not make a point of it. On the Dec. 18 deadline, Dignity worshipers will march out of a Catholic church in protest and complete their Mass inside a liberal Protestant sanctuary...
MAINSTREAM VALUES: this is an expression used to conjure nostalgic images of the nuclear family and a dog living in a house with a white picket fence down the street from the Cleavers and the Nelsons. These are also the values of the wealthy, protestant, heterosexual white males who are...
"We are two nations of equal size...[George Bush's ] nation is white, Protestant, breathes clean air and advances towards middle-age. [Michael S. Dukakis'] is everything else..."