New Voice

U.S. Protestantism has never yet spoken with a single journalistic voice, but for years many church leaders have dreamed of a newspaper for all Protestants. Last week 150 Protestant churchmen met in Kansas City to do something about it. During three days of deliberation, they announced plans to buy the small, interdenominational Protestant Voice (circ. 29,500), and turn it into a weekly newspaper. The new paper will have a 30-man board of directors, selected from 300 representatives of denominations, religious agencies and geographical areas. It will cost an estimated $2,000,000, though publication will start after $650,000 is in the kitty. Main offices will probably be in New York City, where its backers hope by next January to bring out a "national paper that looks like a newspaper and reads like one" and is "as universal in its interests as Christ's church."

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