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Show Wednesday, November Lutherans Jews Circulate White Paper generated the most conflict and severely strained relations between the Christian body and a number of U.S. Jewish organizations. The proposed statement calls on all to cease acts of violence, on the Parties and Arab states to recognize Israel as a state with secure, defined and recognized borders and on Israel to recognize Palestinian rights to and a "national "Palestinian entity, including a sovereign state." Most importantly, the proposed draft argues that the Palestine Liberation Organization "functions as the only organized voice of the Palestinian people and appears to be the only body to wnegotiate a settlement on their behalf." In its respose, the ADL notes that it and the Christian organization are "friends who share many common interests" but that the proposed policy "is so philosophically incompatible with the quest for a just and lasting peace." "We find it innocent, if not naive, to call for the establishment of a 'Palestinian state,' without prior conditions for peace or the recognition of the needs and security of the State of Israel," the ADL said in an open letter to the National Council's Middle East Task Force. "We are dismayed with calls for the inclusion of the Palestine Liberation Organization as a legitimate party to the negotiations," the letter adds, "when the record of the PLO is one committed to the murder of innocent men, women and children." 6-- Israeli-Palestinia- conflict. It is the latter issue that has -fromApproximately 5.000 throughout The Lutheran Church-MissouSvnod are expected for that church's Great Commission Convocation here at the Cervantes Convention Center Thursday through Sunday. participants ri ge 41 English Actor Says Conversion Changes Attitude Toward Craft Meeting At Confab ST. LOUIS Utah-Pa- Jol religion commentaries local and worldwide Religion in America Middle East, the AntiDefamation League of B'Nai B'rith is circulating among Christians a "white paper" challenging the National Council's proposed statement. "Our immediate purpose is to respond to incorrect formulations and dangerous recommendations in earlier NCC drafts (of the proposed statement) which, we feel, can have a deleterious and regressive effect on the movement for peace set in motion by the Camp David accords," said Rabbi Ronald B. Sobel of the ADL. The National Council, made up of 32 Orthodox and Protestant denominations, has been working on the proposed policy statement, designed to lay out the broad principles the council believes should guide Christian stands on the Middle East, for the last two years. A "first reading" of the controversial statement was given at the last meeting of the interfaith organization's Board of Governors in May and the second and final round of debate and voting will occur at the Board's Nov. 8 meeting in New York. It treats a wide range of issues the Middle East conflict, including interfaith relations, the responsibility of U.S. Christians ato churches in the area and international n issues, including the THE HERALD. Prwo. Church news and Religion By DAVID E. ANDERSON t'PI Religion Writer In a last ditch eff art to block adoption by the National Council of Churches of a controversial policy statement on the 5 W80. By JEANETTE GOATES Guett Writer Years ago, an English actor, Bernard Brown, had feelings of moral and spiritual decline bordering on suicide Then the predicition of a Cockney faith healer came true, he says, when Mormon missionaries met Brown, who no longer feels despair, but full of light and gaity. "I believe in the existence of Jesus Christ and the redemption did happen." he now claims. "Discipling in the eighties" is the theme for the convocation. It will focus on how lay people and church professionals can work together most effectively over the next 10 years to earn-ou- t Brown has just spent eight weeks at Christ's Great Commission to Bngham Young University to direct "make discinles of all nations." and act in "The Merchant of Venice." rehearsal, with "I am convinced that this convoca- After one three-hou- r tion will be one of the most important swarms of people accosting him. events in Uie history of the Missouri Brown sat comfortably in his Levis. Synod," said Dr. Erwin J. Kolb, exBrown admits to selectivity in his ecutive secretary of the LCMS Board work now that he is a Mormon." He says for Evangelism. The convocation program will be his collegues. "think I'm round the varied in format, including plenary twist and a bit bonkers, but as an actor that's allowed. When I was converted I presentations by church leaders and 78 was very nervous about this problem of workshops developed and presented by a bad example." congregations and agencies on prac- setting tical aspects of "discipling." Regarding an assignment to play the Those workshops are scheduled fur Constable of France he feared "lewd Friday and Saturday. Among speakers connotations in the words." then he will be Dr. J.A.O. Preus. president of thought, "if I can't say these things the 2.7 million-membSynod, the then I'm being untrue to the presidents and faculty members of character." both LCMS seminaries, synodical vice So he concluded there's little lewd in presidents, District presidents, ex- Shakespeare that can't be quite healthiecutives of the Synod staff here and ly cut. others known throughout the Synod for Shakespearean drama is where their evangelism and "discipling" Brown has concentrated his efforts. "Shakespeare's use of language is - well-wor- n supreme He is first and loremost a poet." Brown said "Modern writers leave us with a rather bitter message But Shakespeare could see through the hyprocrisy and corruption and at the same time was aware of the great nobility and potential of man "He could see one minute the and cruelty of hell The next minute he could rise to the heights and see the glory and mercy of God " dread-fulnes- s Brown added with emphasis. "You really feel he believed all these things." Brown observed in general that "the Elizabethean mind has the capacity for love and warmth and is more open than our own and less inhibited." The lack of theatrical training in Europe did not inhibit Brown's 25 year acting career. Now 47, Brown has worked for the Poyal Shakespeare Company and Old Vic's Theatre in London. But at 15, his "voice only having just Soon after this he slipped a disc in his back and spent seven months in a r hospital A Cockney cured him and told him it was through the power of Jesus Christ faith-heale- The man told him. "Don't join anv of them churches. mate, they're all a lot of man-mad- e muddle. When the 11 be time comes (to join a church! vou told" When the LDS missionaries came to Brown, his wife and their daughters in London. Brown saw the similiaritv between what the Cockney man had told him and the Joseph Smith story of the First Vision. Shortly after that they joined the LDS Church. The personable Brown enjoys sailing and owns a wood boat His wife enjoys plants, children and animals, which Brown says, "are all very similar, if you know how to bring up one you know how to bring up another." broken," Brown remembers reading Hamlet better than anybody in the When asked about the temperamenaudition at his private school. tal qualities of actors, Brown replied, "I suppose that went to mv head and "I've learned that no good ever comes from then I started to act. As a boy of with losing your temper, so it's really 15 1 was better to control it; be charming and playing Hamlet all over Brown recalls. get on with people as best you can if Brown said that at one time "I lost you feel better that way. my belief altogether and was not even Everybody else feels happier too." sure there was such a thing as (Jod. I Brown's opinion of Americans is also sank into an abyss of moral and objective. 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