The Door lampoons church pomp and commercial trends
The Door magazine mocks religious-commercial excess with satire and blunt humor. It features spoof ads like John the Baptist Cologne and tours of hunger zones, and uses irreverent strips such as The Reverend O Fixation. Editors and publishers come from evangelical roots, defending conservative faith while critiquing institutional church excess.
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Wittenburg Door
California
Aspoof
Rydberg
Mike Yaconelli
Wayne Price
Evangelical Church
Christian
O Hairs request for church retribution shocks Vatican
The Vatican faces a demand from Mada Lyn Murray O Haire based group UNITED WORLD Atheists claiming $100 million in retribution for alleged atheists’ past atrocities. The group says the church must stop preaching sex and Christianity and withdraw from schools while warning the fate of the church depends on today’s actions.
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UPI
Texas
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
United World Atheists
O’hair
Vatican Secretariat
O'Hair
Austin
U.S. Supreme Court
Secretariat
Vatican
New Mormon Missionaries Appointed for Area
Elder Douglas Wallace of Scottsdale Arizona and Elder Larry Laidlaw of St George Utah have been named among 20000 Mormon youths in the churchs volunteer missionary program. They will organize activities for National Family Unity Week from November 21 to 27 declared by President Ford.
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Douglas Wallace
Larry Laidlaw
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
East Ave
Wallace
Scottsdale
Ariz
Laidlaw
St. George
Utah
Ford
Ohio Bars Universal Life Church Ministers from Marriage Licenses
Ohio Secretary of State Ted W Brown announced a ban on issuing marriage licenses to Universal Life Church ministers after the church faced scrutiny on the television program Sixty Minutes. Brown and Assistant Secretary James Marsh cited the church’s credentialing method and its stated aim to license anyone who pays a fee. Previously probate courts issued licenses. now the state rejects these credentials.
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Columbus
UPI
Ted W. Brown
Universal Life Church
Ohio
Brown
James Marsh
Modesto
Calif
Marsh
Divorced Catholics schedule conference in Ohio area
More than 500 expected to attend the fifth North American Conference for Separated and Divorced Catholics at Notre Dame University on Oct. 22. Mel Krantzler will speak on creative divorce. Workshops include single parenting. Adelaide Pritchard leads a session on the adolescent child.
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Notre Dame University
Mel Krantzler
Louis Revnyak
North Olmsted
Nacsdc
Adelaide Pritchard
Bay Village
Revnyak
Columbia Rd
Paulist Center
Park St
Boston
Mass
Assemblies of God calls TM a treacherous substitute
In Springfield Missouri the policy making body of the Assemblies of God denounces Transcendental Meditation as a treacherous substitute for Christianity. It warns the practice opens the door for demonic activity by promoting mental passivity detached from knowledge and reason.
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Springfield
The
Assemblies of God
Evangelical preacher to speak at St Andrew Church
Dr Leslie Hunt, a renowned evangelical preacher and former Wycliffe College principal, will preach at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St Andrew Episcopal Church. After retirement he served as Warden of the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem, teaching New Testament at Wycliffe.
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Leslie Hunt
St. Andrew Episcopal Church
Wycliffe College
University of Toronto
Garden Tomb
Jerusalem
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