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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEUKORD. OREGON THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1963 C 11 fcf kA &st1 Religion in America Inadequate Sunday School TimeOf Concern to Church Leaders a" . . . r... i i nt.; miMitcdtiiiiiinal nknitt slniritinn in itc rlncsA u'hiph i (rainini than is iivntlahlft By LOUIS CASSELS L'PI Correspondent You can't expect a child to learn much about the Christian faith in a class which meets for half an hour a week. This hard truth is slowly im pressing itself on the millions of families who rely on Sunday school to provide all or most of the religious training which their children receive. classes," says the Rev. Mr. Parker. ' Vol lmnnrtnnt Knnuch Under these circumstances, he finds it hardly surprising that "Christian training and ex perience gradually retire to a dusty corner of the child's thinking." A variety of efforts are un der way in major Protestant denominations to provide more The traditional Sunday school time for religious education session is one hour long. But I One possibility is to lengthen at least half of the time is taken up with a worship assent- FILM FIGURES IN COURT - Three members of the Hollywood film colony are shown as they had their day in a Los Angeles court At left, Mrs. Marjorie Chandler, former wife of late screen actor Jeff Chandler, demanded that the actor's estate be held liable for 1959 community property income taxes. Bronwyn Bridget Price, center, 19 year old daughter of Maureen O'Hara, assumed her mother's maiden name as she had her name changed to Bronwyn Bridget FitzSimons. Actress Dinah Shore is shown at right as she testified in the case of Weber Von Rosenberg, accused of swindling over $14,000 by representing he had several stars, including Miss Shore, under contract. (UPI) bly, shuffling through hallways to classrooms, taking the roll, making announcements and oth er things that have little to do with systematic instruction. What this means is stated sue cintly by the Rev. Robert F. Parker of Philadelphia, a Chris tian education specialist of the Lutheran Church in America. "A young person spends more time in one year studying arithmetic than he spends in five years of Sunday school the Sunday morning session, The Episcopal Church has roc ommended a minimum of 90 minutes, and the United Pres byterian Church is urging all of its congregations to allocate at least 75 minutes for Sunday school. But religious educators see little hope for a major break through in this direction. Pas tors find it difficult to fit a long Sunday school session into a morning schedule which is al ready complicated, in many cases, by the necessity of hold ing two adult worship services. And parents especially those who regard Sunday school as an intrusion on their "morning to sleep" are often unenthusi astic about longer sessions. More Promising Trend A more promising trend, which has been developing in recent years, is to supplement Sunday school with one or two hours of "church school" on a week day. Sometimes this is done through an arrangement with public schools whereby children are released early at their par ents' request. This is called "re leased time" and the Supreme Court has ruled that there is nothing unconstitutional about public schools cooperating with churches in this way. No one has any reliable sta tistics on the number of chil dren now attending week day religious classes. The National Council of Churches guesses that of the 30 million school age children enrolled in Protes tant Sunday schools, perhaps 4 million receive some week day religious instruction. The Con fraternity of Christian Doctrine, which provides religious classes for Catholic children attending Dublic schools, estimates that about 3.5 million are under in struction in its classes, which usually meet cither on a week day or on Saturday morning. Additional summer Training Still another way to supple ment the inadequate time span of Sunday school is to provide intensive religious educational experiences during the summer. This year more than 100,000 Protestant churches conducted "vacation church schools" or "vacation Bible schools." These summer schools usually are in session for three hours a day, five days a week, for two to four weeks. They provide more time for systematic religious training than is available dur ing a whole year of Sunday school classes. The Confrater nity of Christian Doctrine also conducts "summer schools of religion" for Catholic children. 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