Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartily agree with Letter Writer Jesse H. Harvey [June 17] concerning the tragic mental deteriorations generated by Billy Graham's misrepresentation of the nature of God as an "eye" of stern judgment. Why must so-called "evangelism" always be thus divorced from the Gospel of Christ, which clearly and consistently manifests the true character of God as love? By His own acknowledgment, Christ came not to judge the world, but to save the world. Billy Graham and his ilk purportedly lead to Christ's saving thousands of human "souls," but let us pray that Christ (love) will eventually...
...talking with people as he finds them, and praying with them. Slightly more than halfway through his New York crusade, six-footer Graham is twelve pounds lighter (172 Ibs.) than before he started out, and his world is some 23.000 souls brighter-the number who have made "decisions for Christ." But what impact has he really made on what he called "the most sinful city in the world...
Twelve sackclothed vagrants with no visible means of support gathered in A.D. 1210 in the little Italian hill town of Assisi and started what Danish Roman Catholic Historian Johannes Jorgensen called "the most powerful attempt since Christ to make the world truly Christian." Their leader was a gentle little man who began life as a gay young gallant with a yen for glory-until, riding off to war at 22, he heard a voice ask, "Why do you desert the Lord?" Not long after, Francis of Assisi turned to prayer and fasting. Haled into an episcopal court for selling some...
June is the month for marriage. Fortnight ago the United Presbyterians and Northern Presbyterians joined (TIME, June 24), and this week in Cleveland the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,342,000) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 775,000) merged to become the United Church of Christ. The merger has been 17 years in the making. Some Congregationalists, e.g., the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, were so chary of losing their precious local autonomy in the merger with the E. & R. presbytery system that they sued to prevent the union, but lost. Says the Rev. Dr. James E. Wagner...
...weekend retreat consisted of 30 men-two schoolteachers, one attorney, two retired, and 25 businessmen. Retreatants maintain silence except for a member selected to read aloud during meals and for private conferences with the retreat conductor. Members are encouraged to read such works as The Imitation of Christ, Evelyn Underbill's Worship, T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. "It seems to me," says Canon Eric Montezambert, "that men are more deeply interested in retreats than women...