Word: churched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Church...
...architectural monstrosity in a Yard already cluttered with buildings; and most important, a large and vocal group, while in favor of a war memorial, stood strongly opposed to making it a chapel, especially a chapel confined to one religious tradition. Protests aside, however, Appleton came down and Memorial Church went up, its slender steeple rising 200 feet...
John Calvin, born 450 years ago this year, would have been surprised at some of the subjects considered last week by his spiritual offspring. The lyist General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. wound up its seven-day meeting in Indianapolis, and by the time the last of the nearly 1,000 commissioners (delegates) went home, it was clear that the Presbyterians had covered a lot of ground. Items: ¶ In two separate resolutions the Assembly took note of the vexed question of recognizing Communist China and admitting it to the U.N., which roiled U.S. Protestant waters...
...ballot, the Assembly elected the Rev. Dr. Arthur L. Miller as Moderator of the United Presbyterians for the next year. Greying, articulate Dr. Miller, 59, son of an Indiana farmer, and a graduate of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary, is pastor of Denver's Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church (membership: 4,300). The church's greatest problem, Moderator Miller told reporters, is reconciliation. "With racial antagonisms, with divorce, juvenile delinquency, and the frantic pace of life these days, the church has a ministry of reconciliation to help people understand each other...
...June 20, 1910, in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, a pretty, impressible girl of 21 named Eleanor Butler Alexander was overshadowed at her own wedding. So. two summers out of Harvard, was the groom. Behind them, in a front pew, sat the groom's father -famous spectacles, famous mustache, famous teeth, famous granite jaw-the great Theodore Roosevelt, not two summers out of the White House. Among the guests in the church: no fewer than 500 of T.R.'s old Rough Riders...