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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stamp Out Christianity. It was a religious show, staged by a Congregationalist mission that is run by an ordained minister. The experiment is so far out that many a Congregationalist would question whether the Bread and Wine Mission of San Francisco's North Beach district is in the church at all. But the Rev. Pierre Delattre has no doubt whatever about...
...English major) and from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Four years ago he moved to Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, where he wrote a novel (one of three, all unpublished), worked as a switchman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and preached at a weekend church in Stinson Beach. After he was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), Delattre moved to Berkeley, where he helped develop a program on religion and contemporary culture at the University of California and formed some definite ideas about his ministry. "I began...
Presbyterian Delattre found "tremendous vitality" in certain San Francisco coffee houses and taverns, where "the conversations were creative and there was a kind of acceptance that made freedom possible," and began to wonder if the church should not set up some taverns and coffee houses of its own. Then he heard that the Rev. Robert W. Spike, a general secretary of the Congregational Board of Home Missions, was interested in organizing the same kind of experiment. Delattre promptly applied for the job, landed it, and became a Congregationalist. "I'm not denominationally inclined," he explains...
...trousers and a hooded sweatshirt with a large cross hanging from his neck, Pastor Delattre is a busy man-serving his bread and wine, bailing his flock out of jail, counseling pregnant girls, speaking to church groups, being pointed out to tourists (the mission is a regular stop for sightseeing buses). He never brings up the subject of religion. "If they ask, I reply. And, believe me, many people preach to me, and I've been transformed. Church people often ask me: 'Have things been successful? How many have become Christians? Is this worth the investment?' When...
Salem College The Rev. Abraham K. Akaka, minister of Honolulu's famed Kawaiahao Church, "the Westminster Abbey of Hawaii" L.H.D. Dana L. Farnsworth, physician, director, University Health Service, Harvard University Sc.D...