Christians and Jews Honor Festivals of Like Spirit
In New York Christians and Jews celebrate related spring festivals Passover and Easter in a rare overlap. Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum notes shared mood and symbols linking Moses and Jesus and freedom from bondage. Passover lasts eight days for Orthodox and Conservative Jews, seven for Reform.
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Easter Church Services Highlight Local Aided Music Programs
The Baker University choir will sing at 11 a.m. Easter services at Baldwin First United Methodist Church. Other Easter events include a 10 a.m. Rite of Spring program at Pleasant Valley Meeting House by Unitarian Fellowship led by George Worth with assistants Robin Eversola Bill Tuttle and Marian Warriner and Hob Crockett providing music. An Easter pantomime by children is set for 10:30 a.m. at First Church of God featuring songs and recitations with a later Easter offering and 7 p.m. worship. University Lutheran Church hosts a 1:30 to 5:30 a.m. Easter morning vigil at 15th and Town with a sun's-up service at 5:30 a.m. and a breakfast afterward. A second conversational prayer workshop with registration at 9:45 a.m. on Friday April 16 will be at First Christian Church 1000 Ky directed by Mrs. John J. Conrad.
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Day of Unity Set Sunday at Community Building
A Day of Unity program will be at 7 p m Sunday at the Community Building sponsored by the Lawrence Committee for Community Fellowship. The Inner City Choir of Kansas City Mo and the Melody Airs of Kansas City will perform. The free event asks for a donation to support committee unity projects.
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Women Deacons Advocated by Catholic Theological Society
The Catholic Theological Society of America urged Bishop Ernest L Unterkoeffer to restore the permanent diaconate with women deacons. The report calls it the Vatican II era’s key structural innovation and notes many women seek spiritual leadership and sacramental roles.
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Catholic Theological Society of America
Ernest L. Unterkoeffer
U.S
Bishops’ Committee
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Missionary Finds Rewarding Yet Demanding Service
Cheryl Walters describes mission work at Cunningham Children's Home Urbana Illinois as exciting and rewarding though exhausting. She serves as a US-2 missionary with the United Methodist Church in the United States for two years after earning a sociology degree from Kansas State University in 1969 and training in 1969.
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Cunningham Children’s Home
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Miss Walters
United Methodist Church
Kansas State University
Solan
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