Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to TIME, Oct. 31 for quoting from the Christian Century article on Protestant paranoia. I wasn't aware that there was at this time a renaissance of Reformation rancor. I thought that Protestantism, after all these years, had crystallized into something more than a negation. The pity is that we haven't learned to disagree without being disagreeable...
...week, an earth-shaking rumble ran through the Quebec town of Nicolet (pop. 5,500). The old cathedral, built in 1757, trembled and its tall white spires tilted. The foundations of the nearby Bishop's palace crumbled and the building sank to its eaves in the mud. A Christian Brothers school toppled into the Nicolet River. A hole 40 ft. deep and 1,000 ft. long suddenly opened in the ground, swallowing an apartment house, three private homes and a service station. Small fires and explosions broke out and a cloud of smoke and dust rose hundreds of feet...
Evangelist Graham's sponsor was CICCU-the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union-called "Kick You" by both its friends and enemies. The 400 undergraduate members stimulate many of their fellow students and dons to snorts of irritation at their frankly anti-intellectual attitude and their assurance that they alone have the Gospel of Christ. "Why, didn't you know?" said one classics student last week. "In Cambridge, Christ is the property of CICCU." "But you can't enter into CICCU's Christ," said another, "because they have only one part of Him-the crucified part...
...Japan now has 512,450 Christians, according to a survey by the weekly Christian News- 285,022 Protestants, 193,724 Roman Catholics, 33,704 Orthodox. ¶In Milwaukee, a jury of pastors found Lutheran Pastor Victor K. Wrigley, 35, guilty of heresy on five counts, including: "Denying the objective authority of the Holy Scripture" and "Denying the historical fact of the Virgin Birth." Minneapolis' Paul E. Bishop, President of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church, said he would suspend Heretic Wrigley "without a doubt." ¶Women employees of Miami department stores have organized "Christlike Christmas Parties...
...city of Taichung contributed the 345-acre tract on which the university is located. Architect I. M. Pei of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, himself a graduate of St. John's University in Shanghai, a mainland Christian college, drew up plans for three terraced college quadrangles and four dormitories of open design. The college's 35 faculty members include refugee mainlanders, Formosans and teachers from the U.S. President Tseng was given leave from his post as professor of English literature at Taiwan National Uni versity to take over at Tunghai...