Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow burned one church or synagogue he'd likely be called a punk, among other things. Why should the burning of many such places make him be considered for the Man of the Year? If a punk, through brute force, made an old Jew scrub a street, he'd be called anything but Man of the Year, eh? Would he be any different because he'd done so to many...
...first beneficiaries of her charity was the U. S. Government, to which, in 1898, she gave $100,000 to help defray the expenses of "freeing" Cuba. She was also a pillar of the Red Cross, the D. A. R., the Dutch Reformed Church, and supported the American Tract Society in its efforts to reconvert Soviet Russia to Christianity...
...week the trustees made up their minds, appointed a fifth churchman, Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, 50, professor of Christian social ethics at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. But while Dr. Nash is an ordained minister, his resemblance to his predecessors ends there. Dr. Drury was high church. Dr. Nash is low church and anything but austere...
...Christian thinking much realistic pessimism had made itself felt. Christian Century, a thoughtful and influential organ of Protestantism, had lately declared that the churches today are in a "time of waiting," a time in which "the church does not know how to act; yet has not learned to wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...
Thus in a world much burdened with unreligious and anti-religious deeds, the Church-the myriad churches and sects which believe they follow Christ-had become immeasurably greater for what it was than for what it might attempt to do. In spite of its apparent disunity, the Church, alone among human institutions, stood for the universal brotherhood of man, the unity of the human race. To that far ideal the Church still kept its faith; on Christmas 1938 took courage once again from the oldest and dearest story it knew: "Lo, the star, which they saw in the East, went...