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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1975
Page
3
Directory of worship services, classes, choirs and church activities across multiple congregations in Bennington area. Includes Interims, pastors, nursery details, Bible studies, youth groups, meals, meetings, and special services with dates and locations.
Zion hosts a May 23 7 30 p m workshop by Church World Service clothing representative Mrs Phyllis Black Metzger for Bennington County residents. Seven cooperating churches aided the Spring Clothing Appeal collecting 1335 pounds of clothing blankets layettes hospital gowns shirts and 37 kits. processing costs 92 dollars. 150 dollars donated for new blankets.
The United Women's Fellowship of First Congregational Church hosts a May 20 dinner at 6 30 p m in the vestry with a brief meeting and officer installation by Mrs Rose Elaine Schoonmaker. Green Mountain Singers perform. reservations cost 2 75 via 362 2709. Other notices include a May 23 Memorial Day Food Sale at St Margaret of Zion, Shaftsbury. United Methodist Women at Shaftsbury discuss wholeness and plan fundraising and scholarships. a June 15 ecumenical council supper at St Peter's Bennington. and May 21 Mother and Daughter Banquet at the Shaftsbury church with music, filmstrips, and prizes.
At the suggestion of Rev. Leo Hourihan the Bennington Area Council of Churches voted at its May meeting to send a letter to the National Council of churches asking for sponsor requirements for refugee families. The Bennington gathering plans a June 15 meeting at St Peter's Episcopal Church with officer elections a brief business session supper and a speaker to follow.
Manchester residents are invited to an Ecumenical Council meeting at St Pauls Church on Monday May 19 at 6 30 p m. Fr Martin Clancy will preside over a brief business session before the Coarse Arts Quartet performs a program of American music including colonial songs folk spirituals Shaker and 20th century works. The quartet blends a capella singing with occasional keyboard violin recorder and percussion as appropriate. The quartet members are Martha Banzhaf Lois Buckley Robert Buckley and Edwin Lawrence, all noted for both instrumental and vocal work. Attendees with last names A-G should bring 18 cupcakes or a sheet cake H-N a casserole for 10 and O-Z a salad.
Theology in the West is untenable calling for radical change, per a Christianity and Crisis symposium. Respondents urge non Western perspectives and fringe voices to renew theology, with some noting lively lay interest despite clerical decline and others cautioning against tying theology too closely to social movements. The discussion highlights shifts from giants like Niebuhr and Barth and calls for renewed language born of broader experiences.
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