Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EATING ALLOWED" announced a sign tacked up last fortnight on the Anglican parish church in Kingston-on-Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...
...preachers have often been criticized because they devise spectacular, worldly ways of getting apathetic Christians into church. British parsons now sometimes go them one better. Motion pictures are packing British churches on Sunday nights, largely because of the relatively good films produced by the Religious Film Society, backed by rich Methodist Miller Joseph Rank (TIME, Feb. 14). By last week, 200 British churches had been equipped for sound pictures, new installations were being made at the rate of one or two a day. To familiar objections against such "pill-sugaring," an executive of the Film Society, Rev. Stanley M. Edwards...
...British church films are the work of the society. A U. S. commercial film, Magnificent Obsession, in which Robert Taylor as a drunken playboy becomes devoted to a girl he has caused to be run over and blinded, has also made the rounds. To show all the public what church movies were like, the London Daily Express promptly pictured the scene. In Liverpool Actor Taylor proved too sugary a pill. There the picture was shown in two parts, filling the church for the first, practically emptying it for the second...
...belong such people as Nicholas Murray Butler, Herbert Hoover, Senator Arthur Capper, did not forget His Beatitude's words when he became Premier last month (TIME, Feb. 28). To Patriarch Cristea the Committee's Chairman John Howland Lathrop wrote urging that, for the sake of the Christian church throughout the world, he moderate his stand. Last week, to the great surprise and pleasure of Jews in Rumania and abroad, the Patriarch...
Albania, an independent nation since 1913, was long a part of Turkey, is still 69% Mohammedan. It has, however, 100,000 Roman Catholics, 200,000 adherents of the Albanian Orthodox Church. Moreover, there are 25,000 Albanian-born Christians in the U. S. Most of the 10,000 living in New England belong to the Christian Albanian Church. The founder of this church, named Fan Stylian Noli, is a Harvard classmate (1912) of Humorist Robert Benchley, Steelman Hugh Gaddis, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt. He is undoubtedly the only man who was ever, at the same time, a Harvard...