Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motion picture industry is concerned not at all about standards either of taste or morals. ... It conceived the bright idea, a few years ago, that simpleminded and possibly sensitive church folk could be lured into supporting the movies and keeping their mouths shut about censorship if the industry could be dressed up with a Presbyterian elder. And it has worked pretty well. . . . But it isn't going to work much longer...
Editor of The Churchman and last week's Hays-baiter is Guy Emery Shipler who on weekdays tends to the publication of his magazine, on Sundays preaches to the congregation of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chatham, N. J. of which he is rector. Editor Shipler, native of Warsaw, N. Y., studied at Hobart College from 1902 to 1905, then turned to reporting for the Boston Traveler. He went to The Churchman in 1917, became its editor five years ago. Other Shipler crusades have been: Attacks on censorship of any sort; pleas for the liberation of Mooney & Billings, California...
...Archbishop recalled that when Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the church door at Wittenberg he had no intention of separating from Rome but that later "Rome expelled him from fellowship with the worldly Papal power." Queried the Archbishop: "Would the Rome of today with its sense also of spiritual values have done the same...
Pregnant criticism of modern Christianity was expressed by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of Manhattan, president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
...Syncretism says that all religions are true, secularism says all religions are false and also says the State must be lord over the Church, the social gospel says the Church must be lord over the State." All three attitudes Dr. Knubel viewed with alarm...