Word: churchgoer
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...serving the whites, hewing wood and drawing water. For generations the Dutch Reformed Church has wrapped segregation in a mantle of scriptural self-righteousness ("If God had wanted the races to mix, he would have said so in the Bible"). President Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd is a regular churchgoer who, like most of his Nationalist Party colleagues, acts as if he is following the will of God in keeping the black man down...
...Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary, and no churchgoer is more than six rows from the altar rail. Last year Bishop Pike invited Architect Hammarstrom to the Pacific Coast to design a brother church, St. Anselm's in Lafayette, Calif., where some 450 parishioners assemble within the octagonal space, none more than seven rows from the altar...
...Century felt bound to offer a rebuttal of their own contributor. "We sympathize with (Martin's respect for competence in politics," they wrote, "but cannot accept his implication that vital faith necessarily constitutes an insuperable obstacle to such competence." The editors insist that though Lincoln was not a churchgoer, he was a devout Christian who "humbly subjected all his judgments and decisions to the will of God." A President's religion, continues the editorial, is very much an issue, since it will guide his actions and form his convictions. But, says the Century, the issue is weakened...
...orphan' any more. In joining the church I have the assurance that God's in his heaven and the world's all right, that's true. But a churchgoer who looks on going to church as a kind of private home-insurance is beneath contempt. God doesn't need our prayers; he won't do us favors for them. Christianity is a power-and a living force to help us live to the full here and now. It is affirmation of life...
Skewering the Bourgeois. Suburbanite Odiorne runs through the standard attitudes of the suburban churchgoer's critics-the "genteel disdain" for the quality of his faith, the "elegant reservations" as to the value of his energetic pursuit of bazaars, suppers, plays, baseball teams, bowling leagues, discussion groups. For these critics, says Odiorne: "The Johnny-come-lately, making up the pulpy mass of this return to religion it seems, has several basic flaws which make him offensive to the intellectual bourbons of the cloth," i.e., his preoccupation with getting ahead in the world, conforming to his neighbors and raising his children...