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Abu Ghraib, 367–68 Acheson, Dean, 46, 53, 212 Advisory Committee on Peace, 141, 152, 163, 232, 239 Afghanistan, 374, 379, 381 African Americans, 17, 272, 335. See also Black Manifesto; civil rights movement; Forman, James; racism Agnew, Spiro, 221, 253, 300–301, 394 Air Force Reserve Center Training Manual, 59–61 American Baptist Convention, 224, 231, 379 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 152, 201, 240 American Council of Christian Churches (ACCC), 18, 47–48, 369. See also McIntire, Carl American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 149, 254, 325 American Indians, American Indian Movement (AIM), 272, 290, 293, 356–58, 404 American way of life, 42, 49, 53. See also nationalism, Christian Americans for Democratic Action, 252, 325 amnesty, 220, 234, 334, 346, 352, 358, 408 Anglicans, 185, 191 anticommunism: of conservative Protestants , 40–41, 44; early impact on ecumenism, 37, 40–52; of ecumenists, general, 41, 45, 115, 169; influence on views of Vietnam War, 71–73, 90, 103, 114, 120–21, 346; of NCC, 46–47, 53, 100, 115, 118, 156–57, 178, 184, 231–33, 395, 412, 441n22. See also McCarthyism anti-Iraq War movement, 380, 416; and respectability of religious groups, 380 anti-Vietnam War movement, 186, 205–6, 249, 251; beginnings, and Johnson administration, 89–90, 99–100; criticism of, 112–13, 203, 212, 221, 224, 253, 256, 306, 367–68, 380; divisions within, 89–91, 112–13, 139, 221, 253, 278, 305–6, 318, 403; ecumenical approach to, 140, 147, 210, 355; government harassment of, 221, 251, 253, 303–5, 326–27; and prowar protestors, 253, 255; religious involvement in, general, 100, 112, 140, 150, 167, 203–04, 215, 234, 254, 305–9, 324–25, 401; and respectability of religious groups, 113, 125, 138, 176, 183, 321, 325, 355, 395; and veterans, 325–27. See also draft; Mobilization (Mobe); Moratorium; protests spring of 1971 Appeal to the Churches Concerning Vietnam (NCC’s), 161–62, 165–66 Archbishop of Canterbury, 191 Argue, Donald, 373 Armstrong, James, 241, 324, 342 Asians. See East Asia Christian Conference; NCC: listening to Asians audits. See Internal Revenue Service Axial Age, sages: and ecumenical way, 5, 426–27, 430 Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 351–52 Barmen Declaration, 29 Barrett, George, 168, 183, 185 Baugher, Norman, 104, 107 Bennett, Anne, 143, 241 Bennett, John, 35, 38, 112–13, 280, 446n17; on campaign of 1964, 83; on communism , Cold War, 42, 52–53; on General Assembly 1966, 161–62; on Humphrey’s candidacy, 224; on mobilizing laity, 349–50; on morality of the war, 323, 350; pushing NCC on Vietnam, 80, 95–96; and Riverside Church antiwar speech, 176; on U.S. Vietnam policy, 142 Berger, Peter, 332 Bernstein, Daniel, 304–5 Berrigan, Daniel, 349 Berrigan, Philip, 254 Bilheimer, Robert E. (Bobby), 191–92, 409, 412–13, 425 Bilheimer, Robert S., 341–43; on addressing injustices, 146, 275, 412–13; on antiI N D E X 536 Index establishment mood, 339–40; biographical , 23–28, 144, 360–61, 394; on church independence, 173–74, 186–87, 213–14, 334, 345, 392–94, 402, 421 (see also Confessing Church); on CWS, 250–51; critique of NCC, 14, 360; on decline of ecumenism (see ecumenism); departure from NCC, 340, 351, 360; on ecumencial mission and process, 144–49, 157–58, 160–61, 186, 275, 329–30, 337, 353, 360, 385, 399, 409–12; on Ecumenical Witness conference, 338–40; elitism of, 398; on Espy’s restructuring plan, 265–66, 330; on funding for international affairs, 238–39; on global witness, 310, 315–16; hired by NCC, 133, 141, 143–45; hiring IAC staff, 150–51; on militarism, 356; moral argument on Vietnam, 247, 322–23, 334, 347, 394; post-NCC career of, 361; on presuppositions, NCC strategy , 167–68, 180, 202, 207–10, 346, 400, 427; on PoWs, 320; relationships with denominational secretaries, 145, 147–49, 157–58, 166, 210, 216, 238–39, 402; on theology (see theology); on transforming worldviews, 87, 145, 171, 207, 210, 217, 236, 249, 255, 306, 314–16, 334, 347–48, 365, 367, 390–91, 409–10, 414–16; trip to Asia, 156; on withdrawal from Vietnam, 320–21; on youth, 316 Black Economic Development Conference, 248, 267 Black Manifesto, 247–49, 265–67, 284, 404. See also civil rights movement Blair, Tony, 379–80 Blake, Eugene Carson, 237, 255, 323, 335, 342; critiqued, 218; letters to Nixon, 343–45, 394; selected WCC General Secretary, 143–44 Bo, Mai Van. See Mai Van Bo body of Christ: definition, function...