Every Sunday in Los Angeles' First Unitarian Church, the Rev. Peter Christiansen passes petitions among his congregation calling for the impeachment of President Nixon. In Kansas City, the United Prayer Movement calls a day of prayer to ask God's help for the country. On Long Island, the Jewish journal Sh 'ma cites Talmudic teaching that "the executive is not above the law."
Thus, like many laymen, a number of churchmen have reacted with prayer and indignation to Watergate (now an entry, along with words like Adiaphora and Suttee, in the new Baker's Dictionary of...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
