Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After what my husband did for America, I am amazed and deeply hurt that you should publish such an article about an honorable Christian gentleman who can no longer speak for himself...
...plague sweeping Europe was dubbed by Italians the French sickness; by the French, the Italian sickness; by the Poles, the German sickness; by the Muscovites, the Polish sickness; and by the Turks, the Christian sickness...
...children have been taught by the methods advocated in his book, The Pupil and the Teacher, which has sold close to 1,000,000 copies. Since 1928, Dean Weigle has been chairman of the executive committee of the World's Sunday School Association (now the World Council of Christian Education). In this capacity he is still a vociferous opponent of the ban on teaching religion in the public schools. Says he: "When the public schools ignore religion, it conveys to our children the suggestion that religion is without truth or value...
...Christian Sociologist. Yale Divinity's new dean is slim, witty Dr. Listen Pope, 39, who has taught social ethics there since 1938. His father was a North Carolina banker who, says Pope, "knew there were some things going on in the world of business, finance and industry which were hard to square with the New Testament." When son Listen came home from Duke University in 1929 with a Phi Beta Kappa key and an urge to study Christian sociology instead of investment banking, his father listened sympathetically...
...pulpit, he defied Nazi orders against speaking and writing, and was brought to trial. When Minister for Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl shouted at him: "What right have you to speak for the Church, now that you have been dismissed from your religious duties?" Dibelius answered calmly: "Herr Minister, a Christian is never off duty...