Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intelligent, loyal and devoted teacher. He made a serious mistake in the past, which he has recognized and declared." The university, added Anderson, had every intention of keeping him on: "To take any other position at this time would be beneath the dignity of an institution with a Christian relationship and commitments...
...saints of suburbia are the gogetters. Under their influence suburban church life has become so thriving, says the Rev. Gibson Winter of Brighton, Mich, in the Christian Century, that it "has become the controlling force in American Christianity." What effect has this shift had on the church's spiritual message? Answers Episcopalian Winter: "Despite the strength it has produced, this domination is a threat to the church's witness to Christ's lordship...
...anti-Christian forces dominating the leadership introduced into the churches by the suburban captivity far offset the numerical and financial gains . . . The captivity of the church is a national tragedy of the first order, for it occurs at a time when America's position of world leadership requires a prophetic church at home . . . [It] may well be God's word of judgment upon us as his church. For our trespasses and complacency, we have been delivered to Babylon...
Under way in Israel this week is a campaign to get Jewish children out of the Christian mission schools. "Our children are being severed from the faith of their fathers," proclaimed a poster signed by Israel's Chief Rabbinate. "The danger to our children from missionaries cannot be exaggerated. They represent a danger to the Jewish religion and nation...
...Christian schools, mostly in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ramie and Nazareth, were established by the nine major Protestant and the eight major Roman Catholic missions now operating in Israel. Not many Israeli children go to them (about 1,500 of the 300,000 under 14). Those who send their children to the mission schools are mostly poor parents to whom the missions' free hot lunches, free school books (Jewish schools charge parents about $6 a term) and after-school sports are a big inducement. Some better-off Israelis are also attracted by the Catholic schools because they use French...