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...Protestant churchman in the U.S. will start the day as a cleric, by celebrating Holy Communion; at the 11 o'clock service he will be sitting in a pew with his family, like any layman...
...youngest man (39) to be come Bishop of Massachusetts, was elected on the first ballot. The confidence in him proved well-founded. As an administrator he was a model of unruffled efficiency; in coping with complex and incendiary human relations, he never started an unintentional fire. A staunch broad-churchman himself, he bent over back wards to mollify the Anglo-Catholics. He encouraged both laymen and ministers to come to him with their personal problems, and made it a rule (which he still follows) to insure their privacy, by opening his own mail every morning. He avoided church politics like...
Nonetheless, Ross was glad to have his old friend as a partner on such a tough police case. Kirkes, a handsome, strapping fellow, knew everybody in Carpinteria, where his father had been pastor of the Community Church. Patrolman Kirkes was himself a good churchman, the father of a six-year-old youngster, a helper in Boy Scout activities, and member of the Lions Club. He was pretty bright, too: a Vanderbilt University graduate (letterman in football and basketball), he had been top man in his examination for the California state highway patrol...
...nine days in Des Moines' KRNT Theater, the 600 delegates to the 17th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church in America gathered for nine purposeful hours a day. Moaned one weary churchman: "This is almost as bad as Congress...
...There are other people in the state besides artists," countered a churchman. Then, said Sloan, "it's up to us to educate these people." "It's up to me," replied the churchman coldly "to educate...