Controversy Over Sexuality Study At United Church Convention
In Washington delegates debated a 197 page sexuality study urging that biblical teachings are dynamic and open to change. The document emphasizes motives and consequences in morality, not inflexible rules, and calls church boldness on race, sex, women, unity and growth. The race for Moss's successor continues as Av ery D. Post is named frontrunner.
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Washington
United Church of Christ
Barbara Weller
Souderton
Richard Scheef
Eden Theological Seminary
Joseph Evans
Evans
Robert V. Moss
Avery D. Post
Boston
Massachusetts
Rabbi on cults filling youths religious void
AP report from New York summarizes Rabbi Maurice Davis view that youth loneliness and lack of shared faith at home drive vulnerability to cults. He calls for home cohesion, a transdenominational group exchange, and a research program to study brainwashing while defending First Amendment rights. Deprogramming cases reveal varied court responses to forcible exits.
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George W. Cornell
New York
Maurice Davis
Ilies
Central Conference of American Rabbis
The
American Civil Liberties Union
America
Free Reliaisen Dk.alatan
Brown's Chapel choir to sing at St James AME
The Brown's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church young adult choir will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at St. James AME Church located at Seventh and Maple. The report notes the Lapp people have a language but no country of their own.
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Brown's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Topeka
St. James A.M.E. Church
Seventh and Maple
Editor urges symbol for the free world
Mexico editor proposes a new hand sign for human rights and four extended fingers as a global symbol. He argues the sign should replace the clenched fist and reflect four Freedoms, dignity, equal justice, and openness worldwide. The letter to President Carter cites Churchill and Roosevelt as precedents.
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Mexico
Robert M. White II
The
Mexico Ledger
Carter
White
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
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