The Vineyard

These items made religious news this week:

After ten years' work and spending more than $2,000,000 on the project, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. launched a new Sunday-school curriculum, designed to end "widespread religious illiteracy." Pupils will get not the old-style lesson sheets (which they promptly threw away) but a regular textbook each year, building a library to be used and kept at home. Parents will get the same quarterly magazines used by the teachers; their help will be sought to reduce "the 'forgetting curve' between Sundays."

As the ram's horn (shofar) sounded, Jews around the world ushered in Rosh Hashana, the Hebrew New Year and 5,709 anniversary of the supposed date of the Creation.

Dr. Walter A. Maier began his 16th season of broadcasts for The Lutheran Hour, the world's largest religious radio program, which goes out in ten languages to 47 countries through 1,100 stations.

The Disciples of Christ met in San Francisco and heard news of steady progress toward reunion with the Northern Baptists. When the merger is completed,, the united church's 3,200,000 members will be the fourth largest Protestant church in the U.S.

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