RADIO BIBLE CLASS ERRONEOUSLY IDENTIFIED GRAND RAPIDS, Ml (EP)-A recent news NEWS DIGEST storyoriginating with the Washington Star and distributed nationwidehas erroneously Identified the Radio Bible Class Day Of Bratcher Resigns From Bible Society Discovery as a Seventh-day Adventist LOS ANGELES (EP)-Robert G. Bratcher. a remarks, andIn a prepared statement organization Officials claim this "grossly Bible translator whose remark on Biblical called the comments "Ill considered and misrepresents" the 43-year-old Bible­ lnerrancy created a furor among evan­ Intemperate." Thestatement also estab­ teaching ministry, and are concerned gelicals. has resigned as a research lished thatthe remarks "violated one of about the confusion thathas resulted. D associate with theAmerican Blble Society. the Society's basic rules." Bratcher, one of the main translators of Dr. Arnold T. Olson, president emeritus of YUGOSLAVIAN AUTHORITIES "Good News For Modern Man," had theEFCA and a member of the Board of DESECRATE CEMETERY made remarks critical of a be!lef In Biblical Managers of the ABS, was Involved in INDIJA Yugoslavia (EP)-Followlng the In­ lnerrancy, colling It either "willful Ig­ handling this resignation and reports that structionsof Yugoslavianauthorities, the norance" or "Intellectual dishonesty." the Board of Managers unanimously ac­ human remains from a Cathcllc cemetery The Society reportedly has suffered cepted Bratcher's resignation. D were dug up to make room for the con­ severe financial losses since Bratcher's struction of a high-rise complex. and then used for fill during highway construction, despite vehement protest of thesmall LINGUISTIC WORKERS SPECIAL UNIT EMPLOYED parlsh.D ASKED TO VACATE PANAMA AGAINST UNDERGROUND CHURCH HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA (EP)-Workers BERLIN (EP)-A special unit of serving with the Summer Institute of Czechoslovakian secret police, In ac­ NEWS SHORTS linguistics In Panama were to leave the cordance with an order Issued by the KNOXVILLE, TN (EP)-James Earl Ray, country July 7, according to Jerry Elder, Slovakian Interior Ministry and the state serving a 99-year sentence for the Latin America area director. Although the police commission In Bratislava, Is now be­ assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther Panamanian government had not re­ Ing employed against the underground King, Jr., reportedly became a Christian newed Its contract with SIL sister organlza­ church. five months ago, according to his wife tloo with Wycllffe Blble Translators, the According to a report received from and a Baptist minister. Ray accepted work has continued for about two years Slovakia by East /West News Service, thirty Christ at a prison chapel service and has through the cooperation of various agen­ members of the city's police have been been taking Bible study courses, said Rev. cies. Sil was notified May 17 that visas specially trained to track down religious Don Price, minister with the Knoxville Union would not be renewed and alternative groups and their leaders. Underground Rescue Mission. D plans are being studied for completion of presses, Bible study groups and various Scripture translation for five Panamanian types of non-official religious organizations language groups. D are all targets. D NEW YORK (EP)-Presldent and Mrs. Ronald Reagon wlll serve as Honorary Chairpersons for the 41st Interfaith observ­ MORALMAJORllV CREATES SOVIETS OPERATE ance of the National Bible Week. Nov. LEGAL DEFENSE FUND SCIENTIFIC ATHEISM CENTER 22-29, sponsored by the Laymen's Nation­ LYNCHBURG, VA (EP)-The Moral Majority WASHINGTON (EP)-Moscow has been al Blble Committee. While every President Is creating a legal arm relying on strengtheningIts ScientificAtheism Center. hasprovided leadership for National Bible volunteer lawyers to defend "folks who andthe Moscow bureau of theAssoc­ Week since Its Inception In 1941, Mrs. believe Ilka we do." according to a lated Press reports"shock troops of of­ Reagan Is the only First Lady to Join the spokesman. The Moral Majority Defense ficially sanctioned Soviet atheism cam­ annual observance In a formal capacity. Fund will be a conservative version of the paigns" have been boasting of growing D ACLU (American Civil liberties Union). The support for Its work. ACLU handlescases Involving constitu­ "Atheismenthusiasts. as thecam­ NEW YORK (EP)-Flfty youngBible Society tional rights, but generally Is equated with paigners call themselves,clalm thatonly volunteers from the Bible Society of India llberal causes. D eight to ten percent of theSoviet Union's distributed two million copies of Scripture adults are still genuinely religious," AP selections to Hindus at the largest animal reports. "They (also) claim that each new fair and Hindu festival In that country. D generation has about one-thirdfewer STRONG SUPPORT FOR religious faithful than the generation BALTIMORE CRUSADE HONG KONG (EP)-The entire print run of BALTIMORE (EP)-Government leaders, before It." D the press, religious leaders and social pro­ 135,000 copiesof the 1910 version of the Chinese Biblehas sold out In mainland gram directors got behind the Greater China. The Bible Is published In Shanghai Baltimore BIiiy Graham Crusade, June 7-14, MEL LARSON SCHOLARSHIP In a combination of support that left by the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic WINNERS ARE NAMED Movement Committee. D greater Baltimore talking about the Winners of the 1981 Mel Larson Jour­ Gospel and counting more than 12,000 nalism Scholarship awards have been an­ who publlcally committed their !Ives to nounced by the Evangelical Press Associa­ NEW YORK (EP)-A young man walking Jesus Christ. tion. The Association established the along the beaches of the small Microne­ Newspapers, television and radio talk awards In honor of the late Mel Larson, sian Island of Kiribati In the South Pacific shows all gave the crusade top coverage former editor of the Evangelical Beacon discovered a bottle bobbing In the waves to the extent that BIiiy Graham said, "I do and a former EPA president. near the shore. The bottle contained an not recall a city where the media have Graduate scholarships ($750 each) American Blble Society portion of Mark's gone all out as they have here to back a were granted Kendall Wingrove. Michigan Gospel entitled "The Seed." It had been crusade." Baltimore's Mayor Wllllam State, and Dean Nelson, University of tossed In the sea by the Maranatha Donald Schaefer told a crusade audience, Missouri. Undergraduate scholarships Gospel Bottle Crusade, In care of the " ... It Is spiritual rebirth that we are look­ ($500 each) went to Kim Laue, Blola, and Groton Assembly of God, Sebastopol, CA Ing for," as he welcomed BIiiy Graham to Jon Medina, University of Southern Callfor­ In 1978. The bottle traveled 5,500 mlles In the city. D nla. D three years. D 2/EVANGELICAlBEACON/8/1/81 TV COALITION CLAIMS ..EWISH SCHOLARS SAY NO of exploitation and the supresslon of free VICTORY, CANCELS BOYCOTT TO UNIFICATION CHURCH choice," the letter stated that It was not WASHINGTON (EP)-The Coalition for Bet­ NEW YORK (EP)-Two major Jewish moral to benefit from money raised under ter Television. declaring Itself gratified by organizations urged Jewish scholars to such circumstances. D the Initial response of major TV advertisers. turn down Invitations to an International WORLD VISION FUNDS canceled plans June 29 for an Immediate conference to be held In Israel In August THREE EV ANGELISM PROJECTS boycott of products made by companies under the auspices of the Unification MONROVIA. CA (EP)-Support for three sponsoring programs deemed to Include Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. In a varied International evangelism efforts too much sex and violence. Joint letter to a large group of distin­ was announced last week by World Vision ·we are, at this time. convinced that guished Jewish scholars, Bertram H. Gold, International. those companies which expressed little executive vice president of the American 1) Support of evangelical outreach and concern during (our) monitoring period Jewish Committee, and Henry Slegman, Christian nurture programs of North are now concerned," said the Rev. Donald executive director of the American Jewish Burma's Indigenous tribal churches through E. Wildmon. chairman of the coalition. "We Congress. characterized the Moon Invita­ the production and distribution of Christian feel we are accomplishing our goal tion as an effort "to gain respectability literature. teaching materials and child despite the continuing rhetoric of the net­ through the association by the church evangelism. works." with names of well-known and respected 2) Funding of a consultation to study the The Coalition for Better Television. scholars." worldwide Christian response to human formed last February, Is an organization of Charging that the writings of Rev. Moon needs In relation to Biblical norms. The more than 300 mostly conservative and "are distinctly anti-Semitic." the Go!d­ Evangelical Churches of West Africa. the religious groups led by the Moral Majority Slegman letter asserted that "numerous Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches and Wildmon·s National Federation for Jewish homes have been thrown Into tur­ and the Evangelical Fellowship of India Decency. Its avowed purpose Is to clean moil and parents subjected to severe suf­ are among the groups that will par­ up television through product boycotts fering as a result of the activities of the ticlpote in this self-analysis by churches designed to make It difficult for the major Unification Church." Adding that the and agencies. networks to find sponsors for shows .con­ money spent on this and similar Moon 3) Support of a program to develop sidered to contain "gratuitous sex. conferences was derived from the labor strategies for evangelism in Latin violence or obscenity." D of followers performed "under conditions American cities. D the 1. 1 August 1, 1981 Be300itCOVER: Photo by Paul M. Schrock Vol. 54 No. 20 ' 4 THE THROWAWAY PEOPLE ISSN 0014-3332 by Anthony Campolo, Jr. George M. Keck, Editor 7 LOWER YOUR GUNS Carolyn Larson, Assistant to Editor by Kenneth R.