Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing before an embroidered Star of David and a seven-branched menorah (candlestick). David Bronstein faced his congregation and began: "This is Hanukah week, as we all know. And we all know that Hanukah, the Hebrew feast of lights, has a special meaning for us." The meaning: that Jesus Christ is the Light of the World...
Taking a long look beyond the crash problems and crash solutions of the present, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., gathered in triennial convention in St. Louis last week, talked eloquently of the problems of the long haul...
...into "life-affirming" and "death-seeking" sects is intended to signify what is rotten in the state of Denmark's soul, and in the world's as well. Because of this tragic split, the true faith-symbolized by a pathetic lunatic who imagines that he is the Christ of the Second Coming-wanders in alienation; and because there is no real religion, the world's soul-symbolized by a pregnant woman-dies in giving birth to a dead future. In the end a child's faith works a miracle, restoring religion, and through the power...
Unfortunately, Dreyer's defects are almost as spectacular as his virtues. If he is passionately true to himself, he can also be childishly subjective: his conception of the Christ (Preben Lerdorff Rye), for instance, is simply silly. And at times he is pointlessly rude to his audience. It is all very well to make a scene move slowly when the slowness adds to the weight and seriousness of the situation. But there is no good esthetic reason why every scene, regardless of content, should move at the doleful, two-beat trudge of a funeral march...
...James B. Pugh, pastor of the Church of the Light of Christ in Roxbury, began preaching about 3 p.m., on the side-walk in front of the Coop. As his audience grew and began to spill out into the street, the regular flow of automobiles and pedestrians became obstructed...