Word: christiane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...peasant families (about 10,000 people) will be brought in from 25 surrounding villages. The farmers will still work their old fields by day, but at night they will sleep in the town under protection of a strong Viet Nam militia. The plans for Dong Quan include a Christian church, a Buddhist temple, a rice granary, cooperatives, a hospital, schools, markets, a sports field, river quays, a business and handicrafts district. As the first spade of earth was turned at Dong Quan, the Communists attacked. Said untroubled Governor Tri last week: "It proves that this project hurts them...
...years the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, bishop of Birmingham, has been the Church of England's foremost champion of religious heterodoxy. A mathematician in his youth, he has spent most of his life in holy orders, trying, as he put it, to make the beliefs of the Christian religion "come to terms with science and scholarship." For Bishop Barnes, this involved repudiating the virgin birth of Christ ("a crude, semipagan story"), the existence of Adam and Eve, and such biblical accounts as Jonah and the whale and Noah's ark. He does not believe in miracles-whether...
...anniversary and looked back on an impressive effort. Now sponsored by 56 Protestant denominations, the society publishes more than 4,000,000 pages of religious books and hymnals in Braille each year for some 8,000 blind readers in the U.S. and in 66 foreign countries. (Sample selections: The Christian Faith for Laymen, Man Does Not Stand Alone, Bible Stories for Children). A new talking-book magazine, begun last year (current circ. 3,000), offers religious news, Bible studies, Sunday-school lessons and stories on specially made records. Special prayer services are printed in Braille editions, so that blind people...
Howe, William Chamberlin, former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, O. John Rogge, former special assistant to the Attorney General of the U.S., and Owen Brewster, former senator from Maine, debated the "Ressian Threat...
Speakers will include news analyst Quincy Howe '21; former Maine Senator, Owen Brewster '13; former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, William Chamberlin; and former Under Secretary of the Justice Department, O. John Rogge, LL.D. '25. Robert Braucher, professor of Law, will moderate the program...