Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past ten years, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin, Presbyterian pastor of Cincinnati's St. Barnabas Church, has refused to pay all of his federal income tax -since 1955 he has not even filed a return. His defense: Christian principle. As a pacifist, he declines to contribute to armaments by paying taxes. Last week the feds came for Non-Taxpayer McCrackin...
...Must Christian lawyers compromise their religious principles? Do they have special problems of conscience? To discuss such questions, 226 lawyers, judges, law students, theologians and seminarians met at the University of Chicago last week for U.S. Protestantism's first major conference on Christianity...
...conviction is growing," he says, "that the law should not be isolated from other disciplines." Episcopalian Stringfellow merges his own Christian concern so thoroughly with his profession that he lives and works in an East Harlem tenement section, practicing criminal law in order to "share the burdens of other...
Professor Olsson wanted to know about the lawyer's conscience. "Are you suggesting," he asked, "that the Christian lawyer all his life is sentenced to living with an anguished conscience?" Replied Lawyer Mulder: "Yes, I am . . .1 feel a sense of despair at what can happen to his spirit as he tries to balance the obligations to the moral law and to his client...
...theme. "Lawyers feel much more exposed to a conflict of conscience than most other people," he said. Some try to "keep their hands clean by becoming office lawyers," in hopes of escaping the "dirty work that might involve their own consciences." But "since Christ interceded for sinners," said Earth, "Christian lawyers therefore obey Christ's fulfilled law by pleading for sinners-that they may live and receive what is right for their salvation under God. This means that the Christian lawyer is duty bound to take hopeless cases, as Christ...