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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45137 ECUMENICAL ORGANIST ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Sister Lorraine Therese Miller plays the organ, which is not unusual for a Roman Catholic nun, but she does it in an ecumenical way. For almost two years she has served as organist at the Glacier Way United Methodist church in Ann Arbor. "Playing at Glacier Way is my way of acting out the spirit of the ecumenical movement," she says. Before coming to Ann Arbor to study for her doctorate at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Sister Lorraine was an organist at an Episcopal cathedral in Portland, Ore. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-DET-1C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362584
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45136 AT TRIBUTE FOR HER HUSBAND ATLANTA -- Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, holds a program bearing a picture of Dr. King on its cover as she and members of her family attended a wreath laying ceremony at Dr. King's crypt in Atlanta. Mrs. King led some 20,000 people in a parade through the streets of Atlanta to mark the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's birth. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ATL-1C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362583
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45133 CHURCHMEN RUN CAR POOL MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- It is a typical weekday morning at Watchung Plaza in Montclair, N.J. -- the "rendezvous point" for commuters who ride the car pool to the Interchurch Center in New York City. The Rev. J. Martin Bailey, editor of A.D. magazine, stands on the sidewalk dispatching the 30 or so church executives and secretaries into the three station wagons owned by the pool. Dr. Tracey Jones, a United Methodist official, prepares to drive one of the cars on the 22-mile ride to work. So begins another morning operation of the Montclair Riverside Car Pool, Inc., one of the oldest and most successful car pools in the area. Members of the pool buy one share of corporation stock (currently valued at $95, up from the initial $1 price offering in 1962 when the group became incorporated). The monthly charge is $30 a person, which is estimated to be less than half the cost of using public transportation for the round trip. Mr. Bailey, whose magazine is published jointly by the United Church of Christ and the United Presbyterian Church, said the Interchurch Center has a large number of car pools and first priority is given to the pools for parking facilities. The Montclair car pool believes that by operating three station wagons -- instead of the 25 or more individual cars -- they are conserving more than 500 gallons of gasoline a week. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Frank A. Kostyu (FAK-NJ-1C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362582
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45129 'CITY UNDER ONE GOD' MIAMI - - Chatting about the "City Under One God" worship service held in Miami's Bayfront Park bandshell are, from left to right: Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, former Miss America Vonda Van Dyke and Miami Mayor Maurice A. Ferre. The unusual interreligious worship service saw public officials called for a return to God as the means of instilling integrity in government and maintaining freedom of the people. Mayor Ferre instigated the service in conjunction with downtown churches and synagogues and indicated that he hopes to make such events at least an annual tradition for Miami. Miss Van Dyke sang her own folk-rock version of the Lord's Prayer and political leaders offered special prayers. About 500 persons attended the service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AT-MIA-1C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362581
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45116 CHURCH GROUPS PLAN PROXY ACTION NEW YORK -- The spring's round of annual corporation stockholders' meetings will see an increased number of proxy resolutions brought by church groups challenging corporation policies in Southern Africa and Guinea-Bissau. Stockholder challenges against 20 corporations were announced in New York by the Church Project on United States Investments in Southern Africa. At the press conference announcing the action were, from left to right: Mustafa Sam of the Organization of African Unity; Dr. Donald Wilson, chairman of the Church Project; the Rev. Sterling Cary, president of the National Council of Churches; Father Michael Daniel, superior general of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, and Timothy Smith, project director for the Interfaith Committee on Church Responsibility in Investments. Supporters of the project, which filed its first challenges in 1972, have increased from five denominations and the National Council of Churches last year to nine denominations and the NCC participating this year. For the first time the project is being supported by a Catholic agency -- the Atonement Friars. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Chris Sheridan (CS-NY-1B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362580
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45104 ARCHBISHOP RAMSEY NEARS RETIREMENT LONDON -- Archbishop Michael Ramsey, whose retirement as Anglican Primate of England is expected to be announced within a few months, will go down in history as her Church's greatest seeker for Church unity. Archbishop Ramsey will be 70 on Nov. 14, 1974. He was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in 1961 and in the space of those 13 years he has strived harder than anybody to bring the Churches together. Three particular strands of unity wove their way through his life -- linking the Church of England with British Methodism, with the Orthodox Churches and with the Roman Catholic Church. Although he suffered a setback when, in 1969 and 1972, a plan of union with Methodism failed to pass in the Church of England, his efforts at achieving closer ties with Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism have been highly successful. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (R-1B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362579
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45100 FIRST FAMILY ATTENDS CHURCH SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. -- President and Mrs. Nixon and their daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, chat with the Rev. Joseph Stephens after attending services at the San Clemente Presbyterian church near the Western White House. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-SCM-1B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362578
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45099 'OLD NORTH' ANNIVERSARY IS ECUMENICAL BOSTON -- Leaders of Boston's Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, along with public officials, joined in a unique "Ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving" commemorating the 250th anniversary of Boston's historic Christ church, popularly known as "Old North." Participants included (left to right) retired Episcopal Bishop Frederic C. Lawrence, Roman Catholic Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston, Bishop John W. Burgess of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, the Rev. Robert W. Golledge, Vicar of Old North, and Presiding Bishop John E. Hines of the Episcopal Church. The theme of the service was Old North's "Years of Freedom, Years of God," and it launched the church's observance of the national bicentennial. It was in Christ Church's slender steeple that Paul Revere sighted the lanterns that warned of the approach of British redcoats on April 18, 1775. During the service, Cardinal Medeiros read a cable from Cardinal Jan Willebrands, head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, expressing Pope Paul's best wishes and blessings to those present, as well as his thanks to the cardinal for participating in the ecumenical service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CB-BOS-1B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362577
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45093 WHO'S NO. 1? NEW ORLEANS -- Notre Dame's Fighting Irish leave little doubt as to which team they feel is best in the country as they hoist coach Ara Parseghian atop their shoulders following their thrilling 24-23 victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. The New Year's Eve battle between the two undefeated, untied teams took place in New Orleans and resulted in what may have been the greatest game in college football history. With the victory and the subsequent picking of Notre Dame as the nation's No. 1 college football team by sports writers, Parseghian, a 50-year-old Armenian Presbyterian, joined two of the greatest of coaches, the late Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy, among the hierarchy of Notre Dame immortals. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NO-1A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362576
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45076 NEW YEAR BEGINS IN NORTHERN IRELAND BELFAST -- The new year begins with violence in Belfast. Police sift through the devastation caused by a massive bomb which exploded in a stolen taxi. The bomb blast, as well as other incidents of violence, came on the first day of a new government for Ulster -- a 15-man executive comprised of both Catholics and Protestants. The violence is believed to have been caused by both Protestant and Catholic extremists. Militant Protestants fear that the British government is bowing to Catholic interests and will sell them out to the Irish Republic. The Provisional wing of the illegal Irish Republican Army, on the other hand, is continuing its fight for a united Ireland and for the freedom of suspected guerrillas who have been interned without trial. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BEL-1A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362575
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45075 UNACCREDITED CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS UNDER FIRE GREENVILLE, Ohio -- A court case in Greenville, Ohio, involving the parents of children who attend unaccredited Christian schools may develop into a landmark in church-state relations. The case began in December when a Darke County grand jury handed down eight secret indictments against parents who have removed their children from public school and sent them to a Christian school operated by God's Tabernacle, an independent congregation. The Rev. Levi W. Whisner, who was ordained by the United Missionary Church and the Wesleyan Tabernacle Association, both small fundamentalist groups, is pastor of God's Tabernacle and principal of the school. He was one of the persons indicted because his 13-year-old daughter, Janice, attends the school. Here, Janice studies at her desk at the school. Legal action was taken after public school superintendents filed a complaint based on reports from an attendance officer indicating that the children were not attending the public schools. Ohio law says parents are required to send their children to schools accredited by the state. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CA-DAY-1A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362574
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45069 DANIEL BERRIGAN REJECTS AWARD NEW YORK -- Blasting what he called his critics in the "armies of orthodoxy," Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J., has rejected the Gandhi Peace Award he was to receive in New York Jan. 9. Announcement that the 52-year-old priest had been selected for the honor brought protests from Jews and others angered by what they considered an anti-Israeli speech Father Berrigan made before an Arab student group in October. Refusing the award "brings me somewhat near to the spirit of Gandhi," he said in a letter to Promoting Enduring Peace, sponsor of the award. "lt is not a time for reward, but a time for labor". Father Berrigan said in the letter that American Catholic opposition to his peace efforts -- which led to imprisonment for burning draft records -- had expanded beyond the "bellicose dogmas of Cardinal Spellman." "Now it is on three fronts, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, that the armies of orthodoxy appear, " he wrote. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS. SERVICE PHOTO (R-12D-73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362573
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45059 GRIM WARNING NEW YORK -- A television reporter interviews a member of the Children of God religious sect as the group demonstrates near the United Nations in New York. Members of the group held placards proclaiming the Comet Kohoutek as a sign of the impending judgment of God. Kohoutek has taken on religious significance among some fundamentalist groups. The so-called "Christmas comet" is seen by some as a possible sign of the Second Coming of Christ, while others interpret it as a warning of impending doom. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-12D-73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362572
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45054 AT MID-EAST PEACE CONFERENCE GENEVA -- Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (left) listens as U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks during a luncheon meeting in Geneva. The two men met for more than two hours following the preliminary session of the Middle East peace conference. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-GEN-12D-73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362571
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45052 INSTITUTIONS FACE PROBLEMS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK -- The Jewish Theological Seminary of America's announcement that it is considering moving, perhaps outside New York City, focuses attention on Morningside Heights, an area of northern Manhattan with one of the heaviest concentrations of religious and educational institutions in the nation. Located within a few blocks of each other are Jewish Theological (1), Teachers' College (2), Columbia University (3), Barnard College (4), Union Theological Seminary (5), the Interchurch Center (6), Riverside Church (7) and the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine (8). The area is bounded on the east by Morningside Park (right) and on the west by the Hudson River. One pressing problem for the Jewish Theological Seminary and the other institutions is the need for more space. The seminary owns two partly empty apartment buildings which it wants to raze for a new structure. Legal snags, including tenant attempts to prohibit the razing of the buildings, have delayed construction for some nine years. Columbia and St. John the Divine faced similar problems in the past when they attempted to expand. Another issue in Morningside Heights is safety on the streets. There has been a rash of assaults in the area; last year a Columbia professor was killed less than a block from Jewish Theological Seminary. Employees of the Interchurch Center are warned not to go out alone at noon because of the high rate of muggings and stabbings in Morningside Heights. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-NY-12C- 73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362570
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45047 TO BE JAILED FOR CONTEMPT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A national executive of the American Lutheran Church (ALC), Dr. Paul A. Boe, has been ordered to jail for refusing to testify about what he saw and heard during 10 days spent last March in the Indian community of Wounded Knee, S.D. Dr. Boe claimed that the conversations he had with leaders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) during the confrontation there fell within a Clergy-penitent relationship and were therefore privileged. Judge Paul Benson, a lay member of an ALC church in Fargo, N.D., rejected the argument and held Dr. Boe in contempt of court. He ordered the ALC clergyman, who is executive director of the denomination's Division of Social Service, to the custody of the U.S. marshal in Sioux Falls for confinement in "a suitable place" until he is willing to testify before a grand jury. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-MIN-12C-73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362569
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45044 MOVING ON KIEN DUC, South Vietnam -- A Montagnard family and their prized possession, a work elephant, move down a winding, hilly road in the southern Central Highlands of South Vietnam to escape fighting in their home village of Kien Duc. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-SAI-12D-73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362568
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45039 ORDINATION AS PRIESTS REFUSED TO WOMEN NEW YORK -- Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore, Jr., refuses to ordain as priests five women deacons presented to him during the ordination of five male deacons at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. He permitted the women, however, to go through every part of the service except the laying on of hands. Bishop Moore, who supports the ordination of women to the priesthood, said he could not perform the rite until the Episcopal Church changes its stand against women priests. While the women did not win ordination, they were believed to be the first women ever formally presented to an Episcopal bishop for full clerical orders. The five women, each an ordained deacon in the New York Episcopal diocese, were the Rev. Carter Heyward, the Rev. Barbara Schlachter, the Rev. Emily Hewitt, the Rev. Carol Anderson and the Rev. Julia Sibley. The Episcopal diaconate -- a lower level of the clergy -- has been open to women for three years. The denomination's triennial General Convention last October refused to allow women priests, although a majority of the Church's bishops supported the measure. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (E-NY-12C- 73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362567
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45034 GRAHAM PREACHES AT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President and Mrs. Nixon chat with evangelist Billy Graham and his wife following worship services at the White House. Citing Watergate, the Mid-East war and the energy crisis, Mr. Graham termed 1973 "a very convulsive year.'' "Millions of Americans are confused, discouraged, cynical, frightened and disillusioned,'' he said in his sermon, but, he went on, there is hope in the message of Christmas. It was the 42nd White House worship service since Mr. Nixon took office. Mr. Graham has preached at three of them, including the first one just after the 1969 inauguration, and he shared a platform at another one. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-12C-73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362566
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45032 BELL EXPERT AT WORK BREWSTER, N.Y. -- William Theobald hangs a peal of eight bells in the tower of the Melrose Chapel of the Community of the Holy Spirit, an Episcopal women's order, in Brewster, N.Y. The 60-year-old Englishman is one of the few persons in the world who can both hang English-style bells and teach people to ring them properly. English bells, unlike carillons which are sounded from keyboards, are rung by ropes and do not play tunes. They ring scales based on an almost inexhaustible combination of numbers. Great skill is required to become an accomplished bellringer. Peals usually run from eight to 12 bells and require one person to ring each bell -- sometimes two on the largest. A split-second miss in tugging the rope will foul up the sequence. Mr. Theobald is currently interested in persuading Old North Church in Boston to make some structural changes in its tower so that Paul Revere's bells can be hung during the U.S. bicentennial in 1976. The firm he works for, London's Whitechapel Bell Foundry, cast the original Liberty Bell and is casting 2,400 miniature and some full-size replica$ of that famous bell. When asked if the crack will be reproduced in the replicas, Mr. Theobald responded, "No, we leave bell cracking to Americans." Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BOS-12C-73-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362565
