Permitting black priests ends long-time Mormon controversy
The June 9 revelation by Spencer Kimball declares that all worthy males may be ordained to the Mormon priesthood regardless of race. The decision, praised by leaders and Carter, ends a policy that denied full participation to about 1000 black Mormons and sparked protests, legal actions, and international missionary challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Carter
Kimball
Joseph Freeman Jr
Granger
Utah
Freeman
Joseph Smith
Palmyra
N.Y
Elijah Abel
Nauvoo, Ill
Walker Lewis
Lowell
Mass
William Smith
Joseph
South Pacific
Central
South America
Hawaii
New Zealand
Outdoor praise gathering led by Foursquare district leader
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Northern Ohio sponsors an outdoor praise gathering at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Foursquare Gospel Church of Amherst. Special music will be provided by guest performers and community worshipers are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Foursquare Gospel Church
Foster Park Rd
Amherst
Pentecostal Fellowship OF
Northern Ohio
Christian Assembly of God
Harbourtown Community Church
Ermilion First Assembly of God
Ermilion Foursquare Gospel Church
Mherst First Assembly of God
Elyria
Pentecostal Fellowship of Northern
Faith Memorial Assembly of God
Sandusky
Howard W. Clark
Foursquare Churches
Christian Assembly of God of
Too many clergy for the Protestants
A 12 church study shows an oversupply of clergy in major Protestant denominations with five groups seeing the largest excesses Episcopal Church United Church of Christ United Methodist Church United Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Church U S (southern) The job market for clergy is tightening with women ordination noted as a factor The findings come as religious groups address changing labor pools and workforces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
N.C
Episcopal Church
United Church of Christ
United Methodist Church
United Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church U. S
Jackson W. Carroll
Hartford Seminary Foundation
Robert L. Wilson
Duke University Divinity School
Lilly Foundation
United Methodist Church Reviews 70-Year Retirement Law
In Evanston Illinois church officials study a new federal rule raising the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70. If applicable it could allow eight bishops due to retire in 1980 to serve four more years and affect all ordained clergy and lay staff within the denomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston, Ill
UMC
United Methodist Church
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chronicle-Telegram
Spencer Kimball
Smith
Ham
Noah
Egyptus
Christ
Lucifer
Brigham Young University
NAACP
Boy Scouts of America
George Romney
Morris Udall
Church
Sterling McMurrin
U.S
Education
McMurrin
Calvary Baptist Church
Hope Cr
Grafton
First United Presbyterian Church
East Avenue and
Second St
R. Glen Traver
Church of the
Nazarene
Gulf Rd
Norman A. Shaw
Wearsis
Denver, Co
J. Ronald MacDonald
Great Lakes
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Church of the Open Door
Full Service Church
Route 113
West Ridge Ra
Don Engram
Church OF Christ
Chestnut Ridge Rd
North Ridgeville
WED
Bill Calame
Bibleway Fellowship Church
Lake Ave
Ronald A. Jackson
Foursquare
Howard Clark
Gettysburg
Paul Harms
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Baptist
Washington Avenue
Willis Hull
Rev. Austin Plew
Fellowship OF Baptists For Home Missions
Jon Dygert
Scotland
First Baptist Christian School
North Ridgevilla Church of Christ
Elyria Christian Church
Eastern Heights
Bible School
Emmanuel Lutheran
Princeton of
Gorford
Grace Lutheran
LC-45
River Id
Robert D. Snyder
Akron, Ohio
oReat
Robert G Wickens
Abbe Road Baptist Church
North
Abbe Road
James Turner
Fetowshi
Regu
Broad St
Harold J. Stanley
Open Door Christian School
Telegraph
Ohio
Curesenihens
Sta
Lorain
ODCS
Laporte United Methodist Church
Grafton RD
Elyria, O
ATMO
Sen
Gene Hutt Or
Paul McGeckin
Blessing
E. River Rd
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!