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The recent outcry concerning the alleged misuse of collection-plate donations by some Protestant denominations is unfortunate but not surprising [March 28]. Someone always squeals when others decide to take Jesus seriously and clothe the naked or feed the hungry.
The Middle Ages, like A.R. Gurney Jr.'s other plays about the declining Protestant elite (Scenes from American Life, the current off-Broadway hit The Dining Room), is a wistful, elegiac comedy that preserves a tight-lipped emotional reserve: confrontations that could be tragic are played for rueful laughter...
The critics do not question that honorable or holy men can hold such opinions. But, argues I.R.D. Spokesman Richard John Neuhaus, the church has a responsibility to maintain "a zone of truth which represents the full range of morally serious reflection." And the leftist thrust of the Protestant activists has...
The United Methodist Church, which has lost 1.4 million members since 1968, would normally welcome most converts. But its leaders must rue the day in 1979 when David Jessup, who had become a religious dropout in college, decided to join the Marvin Memorial Church of Silver Spring, Md. Jessup, 42...
The current full-time I.R.D. staff consists of only five professional researchers and administrators and five clerical workers. Following Jessup's lead (though he is now less active), they sift through mind-numbing denominational documents, ferreting out damaging quotations, grants and linkages, especially in the foreign policy field. The...