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Newly elected Chairman of the Board of Preachers George A. Buttrick will preach almost all of the sermons during the term. The only visitors scheduled at present are Paul J. Tillich, University Professor of Christianity; Reinhold Niebuhy, dean of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary; and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, of the Washington, D.C., area of the Methodist Church...
Thus the World Council of Churches opened its second Assembly (see box). U.S. Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam delivered the sermon. It was a great sermon, built around five words from the World Council's first Assembly in 1948 in Amsterdam: "We intend to stay together...
Citation: "A master among astronomers ... he has explored the 'star-sown voids of space' the confines of the mind and the reaches of the spirit." G. Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church...
Speaking to some 6,000 Methodist women in Milwaukee, outspoken Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam let fly at "self-appointed patriots . . . pagan commentators . . . ignoramuses on investigating committees." Said he: "We don't intend to give up such words as 'peace, justice and brotherhood' " just because the Commies have appropriated them. "Little men whose mentality is . . . akin to the Nazi Gauleiter and the Russian commissar . . . think they are hearing something subversive when Christians speak...
...California's Sixteenth District (west Los Angeles County), Republican Representative Donald Lester Jackson faces trouble. A member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, Jackson last year said that Washington's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam "has been to the Communist front what Man o' War was to thoroughbred horse racing [serving] God on Sunday and the Communist front for the balance of the week ..." Recalling that comment, the Rev. S. (for nothing) Mark Hogue, minister of the Westwood Hills Congregational Church, announced that he is going after the Democratic nomination for Jackson's seat. Said Candidate...