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apart.
Some formerly non-liturgical churches have gradually become more liturgical, and some once formally liturgical churches have added freer, spontaneous notes, making for greater resemblance.
Leazer, director of the Home Mission Board's interfaith witness department, said former regional denominations also were moving into new areas, including the Southern Baptist expansion outside the Bible
Relt into all 50 states.
At the same time, he noted that Roman Catholics have grown immensely within the Bible Belt, a region where they once were few.
Leazer said the biggest challenge to Christians in the decade ahead would come from the New Age movement, a mix of panentheism, self-enhancement techniques and occult spirituality, and from Islam.
Islam will become part of the nation's religious establishment, along with Judaism and Christianity, he said.
He said there were about 4.17 million Muslims in the United States but that about 4,000 Americans, mostly Blacks, joined Islam each year, plus Muslim immigrants. There are about 5.9 million U.S. Jews.
Leazer also said Eastern religions and occult spirituality would tend to
become mainstream, gaining more acceptance in society and exerting their influence in the churches.
"People will go to a study group on Hinduism on Friday night and then come to church on Sunday and try to get ideas into Bible study." he said.
He said New Age ideas would continue to influence the way Americans thought about religion.
He also foresaw a splurge of end-of
time prophecies as the end of the century neared.
For many Southern Baptists,
cooperating with people of other
religions is one of the most difficult
to religious pluralism,
Leenger said.
He added, "You cannot demand the right to be heard by people of other faiths. Interfaith witness allows you to build relationship with people."
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Butler
delphia for a six-month internship.
On July 2, Jada Butler returned to Wichita after a meeting with Rusch and Brown's families. By then, investigators believed Grissom had left the area, and Jada Butler doubted that the truth about the three women would ever be known.
"It really was kind of depressing," she said.
When Jada Butler got home, she talked and cried with all the children.
"They just kind of reiterated that Joan was gone and I said, 'Yes, she was,' " she said.
That weekend was especially difficult because Joan had planned to visit. The family would have been together for the first time since Tim Butler had come home
Instead, Ralph Butler and some relatives from Kansas City emptied Joan's apartment and took her things to a Wichita storage room.
"I couldn't believe they had done that," she said. "It seems so final."
That is when Julie Butler knew her sister was dead. She did not help her family unload Joan's things.
Offers of help continue
A man who described himself as a channeler explained that he could hypothetize someone close to Joan to find her. He planned to lead Tim and Chris Butler on a mind journey back through their lives, and even before their births. Once there, it was suggested that they might reach their sister, who could tell them where she was.
Chris could not do it, but Tim volunteered. He had the power of concentration needed to reach
Joan, the channeler told the Butlers.
The channeler hypnotized Tim, but he did not find his sister.
"Tim could never cross the threshold." Ralph said.
The channeler said Tim was too close to Joan for hypnosis to succeed. Tim does not like to talk with experience with the channeler.
"We're very confident," he said.
That is a much better feeling than Julie Butler had the 12 days that investigators looked for Grissom after he fled Trailridge.
"It was so maddening," she said. "That was the only thing on my mind."
Julie Butler was elated when Grissom was caught in Dallas,
The Butlers did not worry on Father's Day, but they became frightened when Joan's employer at Montague-Sherry, a Kansas City advertising firm, called the next day to find out why Joan was not at work.
Mostly, the Butlers put their hopes in the police.
"All the people who have worked on the case have given up a year of their lives pretty much," Julee said. "I'm appreciative of that."
Investigators find the Butlers positive outlook remarkable.
positive ones.
"They've never really lost the love they have," said Maj. John Round of the Overland Park police. "I've seen it in all three families."
One key to helping the Butlers cope was keeping them informed of new developments. Even now, they are proud and home just to boost their spirits.
Investigators still receive and follow leads each week concerning the whereabouts of the three bodies.
None of those leads have produced results.
The focus of the investigation has shifted to preparing for the trial. A conviction is expected, Round said.
beging
"It has been so long," Joan's sister said. "I'm just learning law the hard way."
although a friend explained that the case against Grissom had just begun.
Ralph goes home
Ralph Butler rejoined his family in Wichita soon after Grissom's arrest, figuring he had done all he could to help with the case. He and his wife remained involved with him but tried to get on with their lives.
"After that first jolt, you just keep doing what you've trained yourself to do," Ralph Butler said.
For him, that meant returning to work and renewing his commitment as parish council president at their Catholic church.
"you work up to things like that, because it keeps you busy," she said. "You can dwell forever about being sad, but you have to think
In the fall, Jada Butler, a florist, also returned to work.
about the happy times."
Ralph Butler kept busy by joining Christine Rusch's father and several other parents of children who had been killed. Their misery is supported by a monetary 8-year minimum sentence for murder in Kansas.
The lobbyists pushed for the 40- year sentence because legislators who earlier had rejected the death penalty were still in office.
"It was good therapy for me," he said. "In a way, I was doing something for Joan."
The bill passed during this Spring's legislative session, but does not apply to whomever killed Joan, Rusch and Brown because the bill was made to kill the bill became law. The minimum sentence then was 15 years.
Julie Butler expressed pride in her father, who stuffed hundreds of envelopes for the bill and enlisted support from many friends. She thinks that Grissom is going to be surprised by the families' responses.
"I don't think he knew what he was getting into," she said.
Because of the success of the minimum-sentence bill, Ralph and Jada Butter are beginning to lobby for restraints for juvenile offenders.
"Ralph and I both have a lot of friends," Jada Bata said. "But our best friends are our kids and we always revolved around one girl."
They gain comfort from their children and try to call and visit them more often than before.
Reflections and farewell
Birthdays always have been and
still are important at the Butler house.
"We had a birthday for Joan and she wasn't even there," Ralph Butler said.
Prayer also helps Jada and Ralph Butler, who now go to Mass nearly every day.
Joan would have turned 25 on March 28.
"I resort to a lot of prayer," Jada Butler said. "Sometimes, when I feel really bad, some of her favorite music was Vivaldi, so I listen to that and it makes me smile."
Julie Butler also accentuates the positive when thinking of Joan, who guided her whenever she asked for advice.
And she remembers how excited she got as a child when Joan had friends over.
"You know how little sisters are anyway," Julie Butler said. "I would just sit by her room and watch them."
She wants others to know it's OK to talk about Joan.
Jada Butler hopes people will learn from her family's experience and recognize the importance of prayer and addressing others' needs.
The Butlers may create a scholarship with the money set aside as a reward for information leading to Joan's whereabouts.
A conclusion remains the Butlers' foremost goal.
they forecast good. They plan for a memorial service sometime after the trial.
"We'd sure like to know where Joan is," Ralph Butter said. "We'd like to have a funeral."
"We want her to have a final farewell," Jada Butler said. "She deserves a farewell."
Garbo, Goddard classics available
The Associated Press
Within the space of a week, the film world lost two of its luminaries: Greta Garbo and Paulette Goddard.
Garbo, who made only 27 movies, died April 16. Goddard, whose career spanned five decades, died April 23 Bynum was 84 years old.
Goddard appeared in about 46 movies, many in bit parts or cameos.
Most of Garbo's best work is available for the home video viewer, including her classic 1932 Oscar-winner "Grand Hotel."
Only a few of Goddard's movies have made it to video, including Charlie Chaplin's satiate of industrial innovation, in which Goddard appeared in 1936.
Here is a partial list of what's available on video of Garbo and Goddard films:
GORETA CARBO;
GRETA GARBO:
■ "Flesh and the Devil" (1927):
Appearing with John Gilbert.
- "Wild Orchids" (1920); Love in the tropics — Java style.
- "Amy's Garden" (1920); Garbo
Appearing with John Gilbert.
"Wild Orchids" (1928): Love in style
the tropes of "Anna Christie" (1930): Garbo speaks.
"Grand Hotel" (1932): Crossroads of 1,000 lives and inspiration for almost as many stories, movies, songs and plays, set in Berlin before World War II.
"**Anna Karinem** (1393); Tragic Garbo. Remake of her 1927 flick with John Gilbert, "Love." BAIL ETEE, GODDARD:
PROCEDURE — "Kid Millions" (1934): You can see her part in a blink in this Eddie Cantor musical.
— "The Women" (1939): Movie version of Claire Booth's dishy play.
— "Modern Times" (1938): Up the industry. The Little Tramp confronts dehumanizing inventions.
— "The Great Dictator" (1940): Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel, ruler of Tomania.
- “Second Chorus” (1941): Two trumpet players (Fred Asteidia and Burgess Meredith) vie for the fair Paulette.
"Pot O' Gold" (1941): James Stewart was in this slice-of-life look at oldtime radio.