Clergy: Helping Students Make The Spiritual Passage

In more serene times, the campus chaplain had little more to do than pre pare sermons for compulsory chapel and ladle out doses of manly Christian advice to the spiritually downhearted. Today, he is likely to wear wrinkled chinos instead of a turned-around collar, read Playboy as well as Plato and center his operations in a coffeehouse rather than in a Gothic church. Says Methodist Chaplain Alfred Dale, of San Francisco State College, "I'm generally where the action is."

The new clerical action seekers have brought a lot of excitement and experiment...

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