Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replied the Friend, "it is God's church...
...study at the Community Church in New York, once known as the Church of the Messiah, the Rev. John Haynes Holmes knit his brows over a sermon he was preparing for Christmastide. He had his notions about this man Jesus...
Christians err, announced Pastor Holmes, when they speak of the Resurrection: "There is not the slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title...
There was holly in the Rev. Mr. Holmes's church during Christmas week, and some special music on Sunday, but nothing in the way of a carol service. On Christmas Day, the church was dark...
...books and sermons Pastor Holmes has, since going to the Church in 1907, identified himself with the radicals on all subjects: Jesus, marriage, socialism. In his own report of his activities in Who's Who he dates his rationalistic coming of age thus: "Left Unitarianism and became independent...