Quiet Revolution as Students Seek Religion Studies
Students flock to religion courses across U.S. colleges. State universities report record enrollments, with departments expanding at Iowa North Carolina Rutgers and Penn State as scholars call the trend a shift toward ethical and comparative study rather than doctrinal worship.
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New York University
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
Thomas Altizer
Emory University
Atlanta
American Education In Transition Faces Pressures and Crises
The piece surveys how American higher education is in transition under internal and external pressures. It cites Dr. Clark Kerr, Dr. James A. Perkins, Sen. Fulbright, and Vice President Humphrey on shifting missions toward public service, leadership, and social impact amid growth, size, research focus, student demands, and governance challenges.
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Leonard Buder
New York Times News Service
New York
Clark—Kerr
University of California
Mann
Princeton University
James A. Perkins
Cornell
American University
Perkins
Sarovever
Chicago
Association For Higher Education
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
Everett H. Hopkins
Duke University
Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions
Inerica
Robert M. Hutchins
Center
University of Chicago
Decatur Girl Wins Library Scholarship
Betty Joyce Wear of Decatur has been chosen along with two others by the Executive Board of Alabama Public Library Service to receive a $2,000 scholarship for graduate study in library science. She studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and is a 4-H graduate of Alabama College Montevallo.
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Betty Joyce Wear
Stanley Polaski
Decatur
Alabama Public Library Service
Grandate
Miss Wear
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Alabama College At
Decatur Daily
Alabama
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Ties Age and Growth in Morgan County
In Morgan County this week Deacon Joe Taylor Robinson and family are featured at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church near a log house home. The church, organized in 1844, shows growth with a 1965 report noting total membership 297, debt free status, and a mission east of the church at Shady Valley led by Rev. Newman.
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J. W. Myers
Morgan County
Joe Taylor Robinson
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
Morgan
J. I. Stockton
Mittie Mae Robinson
Robinson
J. B. Head
Alabama
Howard College
East Lake
Southwestern Baptist Seminary
Southside Baptist Church
Birmingham
W. P. Wilks
Morgan County Association
Pleasant Hill
WMS
WBS
BTU
Miss Baulette Bowling
Carl Brazier
Brotherhood
Travis Tanner
WMU
Nell Thompson
Shady Valley
Newman
Vaue
Muscle Shoals Association
Speake School Leader Charles Speake Residency Highlight
Lawrence County notes report James Hogan hospitalized at Batgh Wiley Smith Hospital in Decatur. Claude Pool and Manco White visited, while Katherine Braswell visited Hogan family. Steve Kelsoe serves in Viet Nam. Dr. Carroway Sr. ill at Lawrence County Hospital. Decoration day at Johnson Chapel and cemetery visits planned.
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James Hogan
Batgh-Wiley-Smith Hospital
Decatur
Claude Pool
Vinemont
Manco White
Katherine Braswell
Ft. Walton
Fila
Amos Hogan
Hattie Hogan
Clebie Wallace
Charles Speakes
Hogan
Mobile
Speake
Brady Walker
Russellville
Speaker Pvt
Steve Kelsoe
Viet Nam
Dr.Carroway Sr
Lawrence County Hospital
J. D. Brown
Johnson Chapel
Hartselle Cemetary
Moon cites uncertainties in higher education future
Rexford G. Moon Jr of the Academy For Educational Development spoke at the Association For Higher Education meeting noting that uncertainty signals maturity and universal character. He warned a static system would know exactly what to do in 1966.
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Rexford G. Moon Jr
Academy For Educational Development
Association For Higher Education
District Christian Churches gather May 15 at Athens church
The district one convention of Christian Churches will meet May 15 at the Athens First Christian Church. Speaker will be Bob Smythe from the United Christian Missionary Society who works with the Christian education department.
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Athens First
Church Reaches Missions Goal in Year-Long Drive
The 60 member First Church of the Nazarene in Decatur nearly reached its $632 goal for foreign missions through a year long drive. Pastor T A Shirley said the Turn Ye To Me With Fasting program began in June 1965 and used weekly fasts by NWMS members to fund the project. Jimmy Richey noted universal giving, and the group plans to report results at the May 18 district convention in Lanett Alabama.
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First
Church of the Nazarene
Decatur
T. A. Shirley
Nazarene World Missionary Society
NWMS
Shirley
Jimmy Richey
Lanett
Ala
Mormon Scholars Publish Journal Dialogue
A group of young Mormon scholars launch Dialogue a Journal of Mormon Thought a quarterly from Stanford edited in Salt Lake City designed to integrate Mormon ideas into American intellectual life The editors aim for a nonpartisan platform open to non Mormon contributors and seek to cover broad religious social and cultural issues while preserving core faith and welcoming controversy
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Edward B. Fiske
New York Times News Service
New York
Dialogue
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Commonweal
G. Wesley Johnson
Stanford
Calif
Salt Lake City
Johnson
Stanford University
Utah
America
University
S Office
Laboratory
Eugene England
Youth counselor urges youth role in church program
Decatur based Rev. John Mowery of Lanett argues youth should hold more church duties. He cites 18 years guiding groups, stresses varied activities, early planning, and teacher training to build youth capabilities across Alabama and the South. He praises camping and nature as key to meaning. He plans return May 16 to organize next youth convention.
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Church of God
Decatur
John Mowery
Lanett
Mowery
Churches of God
Alabama
Florida
Austinville
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N.Y. Times
Journal of Higher Education
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Department of Religious Studies
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Rutgers
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