Word: churched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared to two men to be the answer to a problem. "The Sultan of Morocco told [her] that she was for him the most striking proof of God's existence," said the Rev. A. J. Long, 29-year-old bachelor pastor of Britain's Southwark Unitarian Church. "Why not?" mused Pastor Long. "The beauty of woman is a revelation...
...eyes of the church, Editor Dalla Torre wrote, "capitalism is a social disease and a pestilence . . . Faithfully following divine teaching, the church has fought throughout the centuries against this human passion [for wealth], which together with ambition and the abuse of force represents the trio of humanity's greatest social demons...
Outside Looking In. On the right wing of U.S. Protestantism, the Fundamentalist American Council of Churches is the farthest tip. Most of its light and heat emanate from its dynamic founder, strapping Carl McIntire. Born 43 years ago in Ypsilanti, Mich., Carl McIntire became a minister in the Northern Presbyterian church. But his violent accusations of "modernism" and corruption against the leadership of his church soon earned him a painful formal expulsion from the Presbyterian fold. Ever since then, Carl McIntire has been on the outside looking in-and not liking much of what he sees...
First, he joined a newly formed splinter sect, the "Presbyterian Church of America." In less than a year he broke away, to form his own "Bible Presbyterian Church" (present membership about 8,000). In 1941 he founded the American Council of Christian Churches, which now numbers 18 small sects...
McIntire would like to see his American Council taken seriously as the formal opposition to the Federal Council of Churches. His main charges against the Federal Council: 1) identifying Christianity with social reforms; 2) failing to accept every word of the Bible as literally true; 3) trying to make some sort of a deal with the Roman Catholic Church ("a system which enslaves and destroys the souls of mortal...