Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, eight-hour period, some (at least 16 came to play pingpong, drink coffee and sing in Christian fellowship at one of our centers, and a few were innocently sightseeing) of these men did more to break down Japanese-American relations and to hinder the Gospel of Christ than years and years of constructive work, both diplomatic and spiritual, have done to build them up. The strife...
...this, then, the new Israel? Was it for this that we contributed thousands, as Christian Americans, hoping to establish peace with justice...
...leadership, exhibit in their personal and public characters the dynamism of high tension between contrasts. This is not a quiet or consistent people. Its restless side is mirrored in Thomas Alva Edison and Upton Sinclair and the music of George Gershwin. This same people reveres Robert E. Lee, a Christian conservative rebel, and produces figures like Henry Ford, a radical businessman, and William Green, an archconservative labor leader. Of the 300 million Americans, none has shown in his own person the contrast, the tension of the American spirit more than George Washington, whom the orators of the Old-Fashioned Fourth...
...These days call for creative daring in social relations' said Dr. Ferre. "They call for setting the world right side up . . . These days call for freedom to think radically, to speak radically, to work radically, to go to the root of our troubles with the daring wisdom of Christian love and tender caution of Christian concern. "No evangelism to the masses will work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks in spiritual terms alone. Today the whole man need be saved and creatively fulfilled . . . When we Methodists become evangelical we shall have a social...
...Houston, the Missouri Synod Lutherans closed their triennial convention with a resolution condemning marriages with Roman Catholics as "diametrically opposed to the eternal truths of God." Such marriages, said the resolution, involve a sinful promise or oath, violate the Christian conscience, and condemn "unborn children to the soul-destroying religion of the antichrist...