You are not seeing double. . . but you are seeing twins! Joyce and JoAnn Bryan are enjoying coffee in the Biola Cafeteria.
try on that one," Pippert told me recently in Washington. The religion editor's slot pre sents a great challenge. By and large the religion pages of our country's metropolitan newspapers are in the hands of those who move everywhere but in the con servative Protestant orbit. Many of them hardly know what is happen ing in evangelical circles. And so the Protestant share of the cover age goes to the latest way-out the ology, or to a current ecumenical confab. Yet there are some notable ex ceptions among big-city religion editors — such as Adon Taft of the Miami Herald, Bill Willoughby of the Washington Evening Star, and a growing host of others. At last year's Evangelical Press Association convention in Washington, Wil loughby, a Columbia Bible College alumnus, pleaded with editors to Page 12
feed much more evangelical news to the secular press. Not long ago Lillian Block, a friendly Jewish woman who heads up the office of the Religious News Service (RNS) in New York City, told me that for years the press has neglected the evangelicals. But now she sees the situation chang ing. Evangelicals are emerging as a prominent force, she observed (expressing surprise at the conver sion of so many prominent sports figures). And she predicted that the growing number of sympathet ic reporters would help to reduce the amount of cynicism that so of ten comes through in articles by reporters who have little use for "fundamental ists." Examples of such cynicism abound. Last year, Moody Bible Institute was victim of some press distortion and innuendo when a national news magazine reported
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