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Trying the Book Case

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Losing once is not reason to quit. Ask Thomas 0. Kotouc, a lawyer who represented Mobile school authorities and the state of Alabama in the prayer case that went all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court. The nation’s highest tribunal told the Alabama schools that they couldn’t pray – even silently.

Now, the Montgomery attorney and PCA ruling elder is back in court with another aspect of the same issue. If no religion can be tolerated in state schools, then why should approved textbooks prefer the “religion” of humanism? That’s the question that Kotouc and his partner, Thomas F. Parker IV, have pursued in federal court in Mobile. Associated with them in the case is Mobile lawyer Bob Sherling, a PCA eider. The lead plaintiff is Doug Smith, a Montgomery teacher and one of Kotouc’s fellow members at Eastwood Church there. With permission of the court, it is a class action suit in which the attorneys represent more than 600 parents and teachers listed on the original docu

Planters Pick New ‘Paris’

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Most North Americans have heard of Timbuktu, but even if they think it’s more real than legendary they usually can’t find it on the map. Fewer are likely to be able to tell how to find Abidjan, where the newest Mission to the World church planting team is being established.

The names may be equally mysterious, but MTW has determined that Abidjan has much greater potential as the site of new work. It is a strate

Quiet, Dependable

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Elevators, by design, are supposed to be quiet, dependable, and efficient. They attract little attention until they fail to perform as expected. Richard H. Ellingsworth doesn’t attract much attention, and those who know him well describe him as quiet, dependable, and efficient. That’s appropriate for the board chairman of the General Elevator Company of Bal

Aussies Get Spring During the U.S. Summer

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Spring has arrived – in Australia. But “down under,” where the seasons are the reverse of those in Europe and North America, members of at least one church consider that spring’s refreshment came very early in 1986.

Thanks to seven summer (North American summer, that is) workers from the PCA’s Servants in Missions Abroad, the Buderim congregation of the Westminster Presbyterian Church on the Sunshine Coast experienced vitalization and growth. Elsewhere in Australia’s northeastern state of Queensland, two other SIMA summer workers helped new missionaries in Brisbane.

It was the first time that SIMA had sent a group for a two month assign

Spencer Line is Busy

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To some people, especially women in the PCA, John Spencer’s chief claim to fame is that he is the husband of Emalyn Spencer. She is the writer of more Women in the Church Bible study guides than anyone else in the denomination.

To many members of Birmingham’s Briarwood Church, he is the elder who taught them Reformation history in their first year as members there.

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