Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...libertarian. He had, indeed, been an early supporter of Naziism, and the .bourgeoisie and old army families who made up his congregation accepted, broadly, a Nazi view of "the Jewish problem." But for Martin Niemoller, Naziism could go just so far. When "German Christians" sought to Nazify the Evangelical Church, when the Reich sought to apply the "Leader Principle" to church government and the "Aryan paragraph" to the church's personnel, Pastor Niemoller spoke up in sharp, open opposition. Eight months after his arrest, he was tried, on such charges as "making agitatory addresses," found guilty, given a suspended...
...anniversary of Pastor Niemoller's arrest, many a German church dared to toll its bells. In the U. S., 100,000 Protestant ministers were urged by Dr. Henry Smith Leiper of the Federal Council of Churches to preach sermons on "the modern Luther." Eleven oddly-assorted citizens (among them: Alf M. Landon, Walter Damrosch, C. I. O.'s Philip Murray, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Columbia University's Dr. Franz Boas) cabled Pastor Niemoller "our great admiration for your moral courage...
Tickled pink was London's 81-year-old Lord Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, when he won his match (against 68-year-old Sir John Hammerton) in the annual Church v. Press golf tourney, was presented with an initialed golf bag. Bishop Ingram rose to the occasion, drove straight, kept out of bunkers, where he uses "the most awful language...
Most influential preacher in the U. S. is a fuzzy-haired, magnetic man who was ordained a Baptist, for the past ten years has been a sectless theological liberal. Last February Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached in his Riverside Church in Manhattan a sermon entitled: "Dare We Break the Vicious Circle of Fighting Evil With Evil!" The sermon was later read by Dr. Fosdick's good friend and chief parishioner, John D. Rockefeller Jr., builder of the soaring, carillonned, $4,000,000 church, which he provided as Dr. Fosdick's spiritual home when the evangelical U. S. churches...
OVERTURE TO DEATH-Ngaio Marsh-Furman ($2). Bizarre murder of a malevolent spinster, in full view of an English church-social audience, neatly solved, by Scotland Yard's Inspector Alleyn. A well-knit baffler, with colorful characterizations...