Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1963 — Page 16

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By ROBERT M. ANDREWS I United Press International Lutherans have been given some discouraging news about the academic level of the theological students who will some day fill the pulpits of their church. In a report on the nine U.S. seminaries of the Lutheran Church in America, the Rev. Dr. Conrad Bergendoff said 60 per cent of all students enrolled had only C averages in college. Dr. Bergendoff, executive secretary of the denomination’s Board of Theological Education said this discovery came as a shock and was a disturbing commentary on the role of the church today. “It may well be that science and engineering are capturing the best minds of our generation because of the prestige and emoluments of these professions,” he said. “But in the same degree the church has lost its leadership in current thinking.” The results of Dr. Bergehdoff's year - long survey were mailed to the denomination’s C. 913 pastors with a plea for higher academic standards in the seminaries. “Surely the Lord can use men with limited intellectual endowments,” he said. “But this does not excuse a church which, cannot attract its most gifted men info this high calling.” Dr. Bergendoff .asserted that seminaries have a right and an obligation to be more selective among applicants. The best device might be to require a B average of all college graduates seeking admission, he said. “We are not serving the best interests of the church by encouraging every young man of respectable character to choose -the ministry ■,— he said. ~ The education chief proposed a series of sweeping changes designed to improve theological training. Seminary professors should be better paid, he said, and the curriculum should be revamped to put more stress on modern literature and thought. Presbyterian institutions have been asked to use their building and investment funds as a tool to help wipe out racial discrimination. The United Presbyterian Church’s Commission on Religion and Race suggests for example, that the denomination make deposits only in banks and savings and loan associations thaL encourage negro clients. Chufth agencies also were asked to insist on fair-employ-ment clauses in all building contracts. The denomination spends $2 billion a year on new construction. The Rev. Gaytaud S. Wilmore Jr., the commission’s executive director, said the Presbyterian church intends to purge itself of any vestiges of racial discrimination before “asking anything of the civil and social structures around us.”

Methodist educators have proposed a churchwide convocation of teachers, to be held no later than 1967, to plan a new attack on adult education problems in the denomination. Meeting in Chicago, the National Methodist Conference on Christian Education heard Bishop James K. Mathews of Boston complain that “our members neither know their faith adequately nor are they, by their own admission, guided by it in any marked degree in the decisions of everyday living. “The great multitude of church members try to get a lifetime of mileage out of their teen-age view of the Christian faith,” the Methodist bishop said.

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