Word: churched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oberlin College in Ohio, a new denomination of U.S. Protestantism was being born. The United Church of Christ began to come into being two years ago in Cleveland (TIME, July 1, 1957), when the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,401,565) agreed to merge with the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 807,280). Working out an organic union between the two bodies is no simple matter; in Congregationalism each local church is entirely autonomous, whereas the Evangelical and Reformed Church is set up in the European tradition of pyramidal administrative authority. The first order of business...
...Praise God . . ." So complex was the task that the Commission to Prepare a Constitution had not managed to circulate its draft until a few weeks before the Oberlin meeting; ministers had had little opportunity to discuss it with their church members, and many had not received copies at all. At first it looked as if the synod's inability to approve the constitution on such short notice would postpone its going into effect at least until the summer of 1963-General Synods meet only at two-year intervals. But the Oberlin meeting decided to reconvene for a special session...
...morning prayers service will led this morning by the Reverend Ronald D. Maitland, United Ministry to Students, Harvard University. Maitland will also lead the service tomorrow. Morning prayers are held in the Appleton Chapel of Memorial Church. They begin at 8:45 a.m. and conclude before 9:00 a.m. classes begin...
...years, Pastor William S. Hill of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Wilkinsburg, Pa. has required that each boy and girl he presents for confirmation compose a prayer. The resulting collection of prayers, he writes in last week's Christian Century, is "a window to the soul of a twelve-year-old child...
...astonished at the "strong note of penitence and personal remorse" that runs through the prayers ("I ask thy forgiveness for all the things I have done wrong"). For many children, he says, the rite of confirmation means forgiveness of sins more than admission into the adult fellowship of the church...