World Church-In Brief
Diocesan Press Service. January 8, 1968 [61-13]
The University Christian Movement sponsored a highly experimental conference, Cleveland Week of Process '67, Dec. 26 - Jan. 1, The conference, which replaced the quadrennial of the National Student Christian Federation, was not the typical one with crowded auditoriums and major speakers, As many as 100 courses were offered to participants on subjects ranging from the problems of psychedelic drug use to problems of sexuality; from black power to student power; from Red China to Latin America. These subjects were studied by Depth Education Groups. The week also featured closed circuit television shows, student film festivals and art workshops.
Church and Economic Life Week will be observed Jan. 21 - 27. The theme of this year's Week will be "Technology, Human Values and Community." The week grew from a major two-year research project completed recently by the NCC's Committee on the Church and Economic Life. The project involved more than 1000 scientists, technologists, community leaders and churchmen.
The Joint Working Group of the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church held its sixth meeting in December in Assisi, Italy. Reorganization of the 14-member group was discussed but it was decided that the group will continue the exploratory functions for which it was set up. The scope for collaboration has broadened considerably since the founding of the group particularly since the founding of the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace and the Council for the Laity of the Roman Catholic Church.
Anglicans and Roman Catholics will share church facilities in Point Grey, British Columbia. The Anglican Congregation is permitting the Roman Catholic congregation to share its building until they are well established, and no date has been set for the termination of the arrangement.
Intercommunion between Canadian Anglican and United churches has moved a step closer to actuality. The subject was one of the major items discussed by the General Commission on Union of the two churches at its meeting Dec. 12-13 and a committee has now been authorized to study the matter.
Overseas
The Rt. Rev. Philip Wheeldon, Assistant Bishop of Worcester, England, has been elected by the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman, South Africa, to succeed the Rt. Rev. C. Edward Crowther, American who was asked to leave South Africa last summer by the government of that country. Bishop Wheeldon was bishop of this diocese from 1961 - 1965 and resigned for reasons of health which no longer exist. His return to his former jurisdiction is unusual in Anglican practices.
The Rt. Rev. Edmond Lee Browning was consecrated Bishop of Okinawa, Jan. 5. and The Rt. Rev. E. Lani Hanchett, Suffragan Bishop of Honolulu, Dec. 30. Both men were elected by the House of Bishops when it met in Seattle.
British churches held services Dec. 10 to recognize the opening of International Human Rights Year. Opening the Year, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Michael Ramsey called for the improvement of race relations. International Human Rights Year marks the 20th Anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations.
Earthquake victims of Maharashtra State in India are recipients of a million pounds of food and 3, 600 pounds of blankets and children's clothing made available through Church World Service.
The Diocese of Damaraland in South West Africa has received a grant of $5000 from the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief to aid the Diocese in relocating an Anglican high school, The relocation was ordered by the government with no remuneration offered.
Members of the 3rd Marine Division have given $2, 000 of the Protestant Chapel Fund to Vietnam Christian Service for refugee feeding, clothing, vocational and educational assistance. Episcopalians contributed $33,250. 00, through the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, in 1967 to Vietnam Christian Service for aid to homeless, war-weary Vietnamese. Gifts to the Presiding Bishop's Fund for this purpose are even more urgently needed in 1968.
At Home
The Rev. Anthony J. Morley, planning officer for the Diocese of Missouri, has been appointed deputy head of the Pilot Diocese Program of the Executive Council. He will be responsible for coordinating the work of the Council in this area. Pilot dioceses serve as laboratories for experiments in new styles of mission and ministry and in new structures of the Church.
Revolution in the Church is the theme of a series of four lectures being given at the New School for Social Research, New York City, under the sponsorship of the Layman's School of Theology. Speakers will include the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, John Leo of the New York Times, Dr. Harvey Cox, and Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg.
A committee of five persons, prominent in the field of education, has been named to assist the Director of the Executive Council's Home Department in the administration of funds previously controlled by the American Church Institute. The committee will also advise on appropriations made by the Executive Council on behalf of the ACI and establish a basis for future grants. At the December meeting of the Institute it was announced that steps had been taken to dissolve. Members of the Committee are: Dr. Stephen J. Wright, President of the United Negro College Fund and former president of Fisk University; Dr. James A. Colston, President of Bronx Community College, the first large predominantly white college to have a Negro president, and former president of Knoxville College; Dr. Charles V. Willie, head of the Department of Sociology of Syracuse University; Mrs. James L. Godfrey, a representative of the Church's General Division of Women's Work and member of the Home Department of the Executive Council; and, last, Mrs. William L. Gardner, who is on the Diocesan Council of the Diocese of New York and its Department of Christian Social Relations.
The Rt. Rev. Frank Alexander Juhan, formerly bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, died in Sewanee, Tenn. Dec. 31 after a brief illness at the age of 80. Funeral services were held in the University's All Saints' Chapel on January 2 with the Rt. Rev. Girault M. Jones, bishop of Louisiana and chancellor of the University of the South officiating.