Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the deeper reason for the development of academic freedom as a basic freedom in Western nations? I believe it is basically the same as religious freedom. They are both deeply rooted in the Judeo-Christian belief in the dignity of man. The dignity of man calls for respect on the part of everybody, including popular minorities in democracies for the conventional core of each and every member of society. For the average man this conventional core is represented by his religious faith. For the man of science and scholarship, it is represented by scientific and scholarly truth...
...Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale in Technicolor, about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
...emphasize its Christian character, Neighbors' field workers will have plenty of Christian literature on hand for their libraries and literacy programs. But though they will cooperate with local mission agencies, they will not do any preaching on their own. Says Burkhart: "Missionaries try to talk about Jesus in words. We're going over trying to find the secret of improving living conditions." A Dynamic Faith. At present, World Neighbors, Inc. has 120 specific pilot projects marked out in 16 different countries. To run all of them for five years, World Neighbors will need some 600 technical specialists...
...group of Pittsburgh's leading citizens gathered last week to hear a unique kind of promotion talk. The speaker marshaled his facts with the assurance of a man describing an appealing new bond issue, but he was, in fact, a Christian minister: the Rev. Roy A. Burkhart, pastor of Columbus, Ohio's First Community Church. The organization that Preacher Burkhart was selling is called World Neighbors, Inc. It is a bold attempt to fight Communism in the world's underdeveloped areas with a mixture of technical enterprise and Christianity by example. To the men gathered to hear...
...private organization, President Burkhart reasons, can do this sort of job more efficiently than any government. And, if its workers are dedicated Christians as well as good technicians, they will be able to transmit to Indians, Africans and Burmese their faith in a Christian and democratic way of life more effectively than most orthodox missionaries...