Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they can, were subjected last week to fresh raids, arrests and browbeatings by police. The Protestants' leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, onetime submarine commander, bobbed up in his pulpit after a police grilling to say of Nazi Church Minister Hans Kerrl: "He regards faith in Jesus Christ as an absurd side issue!" With the Fatherland careening into the most ominous crisis of faith since the Russian Revolution, Adolf Hitler's delirious Jew-baiting friend Julius Streicher roared at Nürnberg: "Every Catholic priest convicted of immorality must be beheaded! Since I no longer belong...
...more enterprising even reproduced old paintings like The Doctor and Washington Crossing the Delaware. Most subjects were done in bas-relief. Although whispering lovers and mermaids survived all passing fancies, religious figures were ruled out some 17 years ago when a colored life-size Crucifixion (green cross, brown Christ, vivid red thorns and nails) remained intact after a rainstorm and such throngs of the pious came to kneel and pray before it that bathers were inconvenienced...
...Chamber of Commerce Building, Mr. Pepperdine has already lined up a president, Batsell Baxter of Tennessee's David Lipscomb College, a faculty recruited from Duke, University of Colorado, University of California, University of Oklahoma and several small southern schools. Pious Founder Pepperdine is a.pillar of the Church of Christ and his teachers were selected partially "for their devotion to Christian ideals and fundamental faith...
...curly-haired, wisp-mustached University of California graduate, declared he would preach continuously for 60 hours. He hired a nurse and dietitian, a portable microphone, had food, wearing apparel and a rubdown table placed in his vestry. Subject of his sermon: "The Deity of God in Jesus Christ...
...face. "What I mean," he continued, "is that there is a real purpose behind my preaching. If it brings publicity which will bring converts to the faith, then all is well." While a crowded, sandwich-munching congregation gawped, Preacher Lee launched his sermon, using no notes, expounding God and Christ chapter by chapter from the Bible. He was still in Genesis when the dietitian brought him dinner, which afforded a digression. "I never liked spinach. . . . And I never liked turnips," he cried, his mouth full of them. "Hallelujah...