Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this happy excitement of Kansas City the united Methodists went home to their muttons. On thousands of church buildings throughout the land, signs and plaques had to be replaced or repainted to exhibit the name of the new church. In many a locality where the work of the three late churches had overlapped, there would be mergers, although the Conference had warned against "hasty action for financial reasons." In truth, however, the Conference had itself performed some hasty actions for financial reasons-in order to adjourn before its Conference treasury was exhausted. In slapping together the nation...
Methodist doctrines and ritual are flexible enough so that little controversy arose over their definition. But over a lengthy and liberal social creed submitted to the Conference, there was a sputter. Delegate Alfred Mossman Landon objected to the section which promised the support of the Methodist Church to conscientious objectors. Youngish Delegate Lloyd E. Foster of East Orange, N. J. shouted that only the "grey-haired and baldheaded" objected to the section. Red-faced, Delegate Landon shouted: "I submit that the argument is a cowardly one!" Nevertheless, the Conference voted down grey-haired Mr. Landon...
...which stood in the way of any person who believed in political and economic progressivism. And my friend smiled and answered: 'Don't you realize that you're a little naïve, Heywood? You like to call yourself a radical, but the doctrines of the Church to which I belong imply so many deep changes in human relationship that when they are accomplished-and they will be-your own notions will be nothing more than an outmoded pink liberalism...
...Whenever the Church militant begins to march there is no force in the armaments of dictators which can stay its progress...
...Heywood Broun, these seemed strange words indeed. Although he had never attacked a Christian church as such, he had in the past laid about him in bludgeoning fashion among the churches, belaboring reactionaries like Bishop James Cannon Jr., Canon William Sheafe Chase, Anthony Comstock (in a biography he helped write). To many a U. S. churchman, Heywood Broun was a Red, certainly a freethinker, probably an atheist...