Jesus part of Jewish underground
Pike affirms origins
By RICHARD LOUV Kansan Staff Writer
The no-notes speech was over. Twenty people sat around the room as the "heretic" tumbled out the words as if time was not on his side.
He was looking at the girl sitting on the floor who had wondered why Bishop Pike remained in the church. She said the church had become just an institution.
"The reason you stay in anything is because you have hope that it can be saved," he said. He pointed to the girl's blouse. "You are wearing an institution. You can't escape institutions—or run away from them."
This was the Bishop Pike who had been accused of heresy by fellow Episcopal clergy for questioning the infallibility of the church. He did not especially believe in the trinity, or the virgin birth. He had cast off many of the traditional Christian beliefs in favor of a more rational and historical view of Christ.
A real Jesus
"Jesus, reconstructed out of facts, is fabulous," he said. "He's so much better than the Sunday school Jesus, the no-trouble Jesus."
Bishop Pike said he is returning to Jerusalem for the sixth time next month, along with a television producer, to film historical discoveries he has been involved in.
"The jigsaw puzzle is really coming together. The real Jesus was always in trouble. And he was not, as some would like you to believe, killed because he was Christian, but because he was a Jew associated with the Jewish underground resistance.
He held up the cross around his neck.
"This is the sign of resistance," he said. The cross was attached to another familiar sign, the peace symbol.
"Jesus was for the law when it was just, but he would break the law anytime he saw a way to help someone. He drank for forbidden cups so that he could talk to people that the law said he could not. He drove cattle into a temple to oppose the institution, and he died on the cross between two guerrillas. But everyone knows that guerrillas are thieves, and that's why it came out in the cleaned-up version."
A student in the back of the room asked him about his views on campus disturbances.
Non-violent revolutionary
"I'm still confused on this. I believe in demonstrations, and I've participated in them, but I'm on the non-violent wing of the spectrum."
Pike said he was opposed to arson and blocking
buildings. "I suppose this sounds paradoxical, but I get impatient with those students who keep other people from doing their thing. There are those who say to the more passive ones that they aren't with it. Isn't it possible to have a good motive for being square? It's not a bad thing to get prepared through education to be agents later of social change," he said.
Desert people
The girl on the floor asked again about the nature of modern religion. Bishop Pike called America a post-urban culture.
"We're a nomadic people. We passed the urban culture fast and now we're like the desert people, who moved on before they could deify objects. The fixed institutional church is not mobile, but I think it can still do some good. That's not the central issue. The religion is what is important. Jesus did not found a church, he founded a movement. I think we should get back to that," he said.
Bishop Pike got to his feet and thanked the people for coming.
"I have to move on now. I really enjoyed this."
The "heretic" with new sideburns and a ghost of a beginning mustache saw someone he knew, smiled, and talking to her, was delayed in leaving. Several other people grouped around him and he remained another 15 minutes.
Bishop Pike has a hard time being nomadic.
Photo by Joanna Wiebe
Mrs. Cynthia Galyardt
Mrs. Cynthia Galyard scans through a past edition of the Kansas Business Review magazine.
Spanish Institute offers study trip
The KU Spanish Summer Institute is offering students a relatively unstructured program of study and travel in Barcelona, Spain, this summer said Gary L. Brower, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
Brower said the only structured part of the trip will be the classes.
"We organized the trip and classes, the rest of the program is left loose."
Brower said classes will be held for four hours in the morning.
He added there will be six hours credit given for the summer program and three
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Brower said the trip, leaving New York June 25 and returning Aug. 23, will visit the Spanish Riviera for a few days before going on to Barcelona early in Julv.
course sequences will be offered: combinations of Spanish 3 and 4; Spanish 5, 6 and 7, and Spanish 6, 7 and 91.
In August, the group will take a trip through Spain, Brower said.
At the close of the program participants will have 10 days free time to travel.
Woman works job around family
The cost of the trip is $975. Applications are available either in the Spanish department in Carruth-O'Leary Hall or in the International Programs Office, 224 Strong Hall.
Computers alone do not give Summerfield Hall its reputation. Buried along the main floor corridor is the home of the Kansas Business Review magazine.
And Mrs. Cynthia Galyardt as editor of the magazine, gives a new twist to the story of the emancipated woman.
Mrs. Galyardt uses her college degree by editing a magazine of 6,300 circulation, of which 4,000 copies are distributed to Kansas businessmen.
"I work my schedule around my family. This is the perfect job—it put me back into the journalistic field. A woman can rarely devote her time to her children and a job. In my case I haven't had to sacrifice my children," she said.
Half of each day is spent at the office editing, while her children are in school. Her job consists of seeing the magazine through to the finished process. "My own writing is comprised of press releases, which I watch closely to see if newspapers print them." she said.
The Kansas Business Review is a free publication, a service of
"I like to get publicity for the Center for Regional Studies," she explained."My only chance to do any writing is in press releases, which are favorable for the Center."
director who has not been associated with the School of Business, she said.
KU. Robert T. Aangeenbrug, assistant professor of geography and Center director, is the first
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