Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dress Rite. In Walhalla, S.C., 37 members of the Rider Mountain Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church went to court asking for the reinstatement of their pastor, the Rev. Haskell Lee, who had been unfrocked for wearing a necktie in the pulpit...
...Franklin Clark Fry, among others, as calling Peale's type of religion "very nearly blasphemous" and "a parody." As he read, Peale "felt something wince and shrivel inside of him." That night on the train, Peale wrote out his resignation as pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church. After Peale's minister father died at 85, his stepmother Mary said, "Your father left a message for you ... He said, 'Tell Norman his message is right . . . just put his trust in Jesus Christ and never quit.' " Peale handed his wife his letter of resignation, unsent. "Here...
...Myles Mace carries out a threat he made recently, a how-to-succeed-in-business book may appear within the next few years under the title The Gospel According to St. Mace. And believers of the new Word, whether they attend lunch hour worship at the church on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, or a baccalaureate service at a university chapel, need have only the grace of competency...
...Jewish service which they conduct but rather a "Protestant order" of worship with a sermon from the Jewish point of view. This policy change does not, however, alleviate the perfectly justified complaint of one Jewish girl that "it is morally wrong to require anyone to go to church." If Mount Holyoke intends to continue admitting students of all faiths on a non-sectarian basis, it would seem fitting that the college alter its church requirement, so that no girl would be compelled to worship in a place not of her own choosing...
...addition to the Sunday church services," the trustees' statement continues, "the College conducts a number of assemblies. Generally they consist of: The Gathering of the College, a secular student assembly held on Tuesday mornings, conducted by the President of the College; College lectures, on Wednesday evening, with addresses by visiting speakers; (and) College chapel services, religious in character, on Thursday mornings, arranged by the Dean of the College Chapel and the Fellowship of Faiths...