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Religion in Americo Clergyman Has Good Word To Say for Suburan Churches By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent The Rev. Robert A. Mac Gill is a courageous clergy man. He dares to say a good word about suburban churches. To find i.ny signs of health and vitality in suburbia is a very unfashionable thing to do these days. It's getting so you can hardly pick up a church periodical without en countering a jeremiad against the "materialism," parochial ism" and "shallowness" of suburban Christianity. It is a little startling, there fore, to find the Rev. Mr. MacGill saying boldly in the Living Church Magazine: "Despite the prophets of suburban doom, the church is still mediating Christ's salva tion . . . even in Status Heights. And it is doing so remarkably well, in my opinion." The Rev. Mr. MacGill served until recently as vicar of what he describes as an "arch-typical" suburban par ishthe Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Indianapolis. Ind. He is now on the staff of the National Council of the Episcopal Church. Not 'Dreary, Foolish' He acknowledges that the average suburban congrega tion is far from being the dedicated body of Christian disciples that it ought to be. But with all of its shortcom ings, suburban Christianity is not as "dreary and foolish" as its critics paint it. In suburbia, the Rev. Mr. MacGill says, "The Gospel is being proclaimed and re ceived by men and women who want badly to know that there is Good News with power to save. "The historic creeds are staking out blazing areas of eternal truth for lonely, tran sient and skeptical folk whose uniformly college educated minds still clamor for the few simple certainties of life. "The food and drink of the Eucharist are penetrating the lives of wordlings who know acutely what it is to hunger and thirst in the midst of cocktail-a-n-d-cookout plente ousness." Instead of scorning subur bia as a wasteland of Pharis aism, the Episcopal minister says, churches should recog nize that it "may well be the greatest missionary challenge to Christianity in America to day." Learntd Two Leisom From his own ministry In the suburbs, the Rev. Mr. MacGill has learned two les sons which he commends to all clergymen who are as signed to this "missionary" frontier. The first is that "suburba nites do not need the church for picnics, parties and the like . . . they have their own resources for leisure and recreation." SECTION C PAGES 1 to 10 Medford Tribune MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1962 The effort spent in so many churches on organized outings and social affairs is an essential waste." he says, be cause it merely provides another opportunily for hu man relationship on an "arti ficial level." "What people want is the chance to know other Chris tians in some depth. Adult study programs of an un abashedly religious nature and especially those with lay leadership are the obvious alternative." The second lesson is that "suburbanites are painfully self-conscious Christians be cause, despite their high level of book-learning, they are es sentially ignorant about the Christian religion." "Too often we ask a church member to accomplish the impossible task of being a Christian without giving him basic instruction in what Christianity is all about. Don't Know Bible "In the transient world of suburbia, a terrifying num ber have never had that in troduction. They do not know the Bible. They don't know why the church is as it is, and does as it docs. And they are ashamed and self-conscious because they don't know." His remedy which worked wonders for the Church of the Nativity at Indianapolis is to provide adults as well as children with systematic, ba sic instruction in the "con tent of the Christian faith." To provide this instruction, the Church of the Nativity worked out an "unshamedly ELECT BY FAR THE BETTER QUALIFIED MAN BERLE STEPHENS Jackson County SHERIFF Continuous Service Since 1951 in law Enforcement and Investigation World War 2 Veteran Honut Competent Cooperative Pd. Pol. Adv. Dorris Chinn Stephens Com , 101 Lozier Lane iffu old-Ia;-hiond curriculum" in which the Bible was the prin cipal textbook. "Modern religious educa tors will probably scream," sas the Rev. Mr. MacGill, "but this was the moment when these suburban Chris tians began to lose their self, consciousness and to become properly conscious of holy God. "I am convinced that thera is a major key to the life ot the church in suburbia." 1 StlN'l 1HW Writ u for reservations or "SSSjSsSsH- k see your trovel cgnt A SURE WINNER Paignton. England tUPP Mrs. Jennifer Rogers, 25, a former convent school teach er, has opened her new bookie shop. It's on Winner si. Hurrah for Boots Boots, beloved by every one - teens to mom! 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