Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 29, 1992 TAG: 9203020193
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Brown University chaplain to speakThe Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, chaplain of Brown University in Providence, R.I., will speak March 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Hollins College DuPont Chapel. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Nelson is a graduate of Wellsley, Tufts and the divinity school of Harvard. She has previously worked with students at Vassar, Mount Holyoke and Dartmouth Colleges.
Her interests include ethics and women's and children's issues. Theme of the service will be "Wilderness Memories." It is open to the public as well as the college community.
- Staff
Worshop to focus on childhood music
"Early Childhood Music for Church and School" will be the theme of a workshop March 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, Third and Mountain Southwest.
It will be led by Marcelyn Smale of St. Cloud University in Minnesota. Cost is $25.
The event is open to the public. Call 890-2861 for more information. The Virginia Highlands Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association is sponsoring the program.
- Staff
Conference planned for women in ministry
A conference for ordained women and other women who regard their work as ministry is scheduled May 24-26 at the Episcopal Conference Center in Browns Summit, N.C.
It is sponsored by the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South of Durham, N.C., which also annually sponsors a fall conference at Camp Bethel.
Cost is $125 with registration needed by May 15. Call 919-687-0408 for more information.
Through discussion groups registrants will have a theme of "Keeping Yourself Together While Changing the World."
- Staff
Baptist leader takes administrator's post
NASHVILLE - The Rev. Morris Chapman, a Texas pastor and outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention, has been elected as the denomination's chief administrator.
The interim policy-making group, the 77-member executive committee, has picked him to become its president-treasurer, succeeding the Rev. Harold C. Bennett, 67. Bennett retires Oct. 1 after holding the post for 13 years.
Chapman, 51, pastor of First Baptist Church in Wichita Falls, Texas, has been the convention's president for two one-year terms, representing a fundamentalist wing that has gained predominance over denominational institutions.
He leaves that office after a mid-June convention of the 15 million-member denomination.
- Associated Press
Jewish commitment to tradition slipping
PORTLAND, Ore. - American Jews have retained their commitment to social justice and human rights, but their allegiance to religious tradition is slipping, Jewish community leaders say.
They told the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council that the challenge for American Jews is to retain their Judaism in an open and pluralistic society.
Barry Shrage, an Orthodox Jew and president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, noted that 52 percent of Jewish marriages now are to non-Jews, and said, "What is scarier is that only half of this group say it's important to be Jewish."
- Associated Press
3 Mormon missions set up in former Soviet Union
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it has established three missions in the former Soviet Union - the Russia Moscow Mission, the Russia St. Petersburg Mission and the Ukraine Kiev Mission.
- Associated Press
Bishop denounces KKK comparison on insignia
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. - United Methodist Bishop David J. Lawson has denounced a Ku Klux Klan recruitment brochure likening the Klan's white-supremacist cross-burnings to the United Methodist cross-and-flame insignia.
In a letter to pastors, Lawson called the comparison "repugnant" and said "both the teaching and practice of this hate group is contrary to the witness of Jesus Christ."
The church's symbol was adopted in 1968; the flame represents the Holy Spirit.
- Associated Press