University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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At the keynote address. Dr. Max Arzt (top right) said a religion is a distinctive community and should not be homogenized. Mankind is united by diversity of language and belief. There are people so heavenly-minded to be of no earthly use, and there are people so earthly-minded to be of no heavenly good, declared Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr. (bottom right) during his address The Hostilities of Sex.

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We have been living through decades of darkness and great stress, but three major break- throughs—the nuclear test ban treaty, the Civil Rights Act and the Second Vatican Ecuminical Council—are great steps forward which will bolster our morale and give us courage! Thus, Rabbi Max Arzt, vice-chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, keynoted Religion-in-Life Week as he spoke on Healing Inter-faith Tensions. The theme of this year ' s Religion-in-Life Week— The Enmities of Man —describes an inquiry and discussion into the tensions and hostilities that exist in the world. In examining this enmity, the focus was placed on why it exists, what has caused it, what it tells us about ourselves, and where we go from here. In his discussion, Dr. Arzt pointed out that political imperialism has vanished and that religious imperialism is going as soon as people realize that religious pluralism is possible. A union of believers is possible, but not a union of beliefs, he stated. He visualized a united religious organization, something like the United Nations, where each religion would reattain its individuality doing its work in this world .. . a unity in diversity on the religious level. Another popular address during the week featured the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr., chaplain at Yale University, who spoke on The Hostilities of Sex. He stressed the need for warmth, humanity and deep personal relationships especially now in a highly technolized age where there is much compulsory impersonalization. However, he said, people must learn to be responsible for their own lives and actions and each should realize that marriage is no solution to one ' s problems. The hard thing is not marrying the boy you love, but loving the boy you marry. Sex is basically a reflection of a search for another in his or her personality and we now need deep personal relationships between man and woman more than ever, Coffin stated. Persons in love should ask themselves what does love require? he said, and described four things—hallowment of individuality, consecration of personality, that actions reflect a movement toward one another and not away, and individual responsibility for actions—as criteria. At a luncheon address entitled The and the Social Order, Chaplain Coffin emphasized the need for recognition of the plight of peoples who have been left behind in the surge of economic advancement. Anierica has been much like a luxury liner with all the attention on deck one, he said, and it is beginning to sink because the college graduates are too confused, frightened and inert to make common cause for the sufferers in the world and find creative truths in today ' s problems. Continuing, he said that today many of these sufferers are finding their voice and strength and it would be a wonderful thing if our volcanic age decided it didn ' t want to scorn the enigma of suffering, dilemma, and agony of the world and take the plunge. Surely out there in those sufferers they would be in good company, for certainly among all those sandals one would find a Socrates, a Nero, a Jesus. inquiry into enmities among men 121