Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were held by individual Christians and churches in other places. I found no other laymen crusading for integration, no pastors making an issue of segregation in their sermons, no concerted action for integration on the part of churches, no clarion call for unity of races in the worship of Christ by the Southern Baptist Convention, and there is silence in the denominational papers...
...nothing Christian in it. The Church in her teaching and liturgy shows no signs of nostalgia. She does not dream of a Golden Age to which she longs to return. For her the Second Adam is infinitely better than the first. Man after the Fall, sinful but redeemed by Christ, is better off than before the fall...
...separation of white and Negro people. Three years ago these views were completely transformed. I became convinced that God makes no distinctions among people whatever their race and that segregation is exclusively by God in the final judgment ... I am now wondering whether I am interpreting the Scriptures like Christ or like Satan...
...some circles religion has become an opiate of the people. Present day Christianity is to many people tame and prosaic, prim and dull ... Too many of us have lost Christ's call to heroism and have grown comfortable and commonplace, small in our minds and imaginations. The Christian church has become too much an ambulance, dragging along behind, picking up the wounded, making bandages, and soothing hurt feelings, when the church should be out on the front line, getting hit in the face, but leading others and conquering the enemy...
...least three levels. Its walls are decorated with an extraordinary number of pictures. "Nothing like this," said Jesuit Archaeologist Antonio Ferrua, who headed the digging, "has ever been found in an early Christian cemetery." Some of the paintings show episodes from the life of Christ (the Sermon on the Mount) and from Judaeo-Christian legend (Lot and his daughters), while others are wholly pagan. Cleopatra is shown in a flower garden, holding an asp to her breast. A cubicle is devoted to the labors of Hercules. Other pictures seem to be scenes from contemporary Roman life, such as a teacher...