Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...codes and their theological dialectic, impinged powerfully upon the behavior and thoughts of ordinary men. Today many a nominal Christian is tired of hearing about morals, and his uninformed indifference to theology is such that his pastors burden him with as little of it as possible. .In recent years churchmen have entered the more fruitful fields of economics and sociology, which to a great extent were tilled before the clergy arrived. Twice last week this new sociological trend of religion made news...
This acquittal sharpened interest in the trial scheduled for this week, of the Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, fiery ex-U-boat commander arrested last March on "still more serious charges." Since Dr. Niemoller has long been the spearhead of the Confessional movement many Churchmen regarded the unexceptionable handling of Dr. Dibelius' trial as disingenuous window-dressing, wherein the Nazis deliberately threw a small fish back into the pond, while they went right ahead with their plans to land a whale...
...Mary the Virgin's Church in Oxford last Sunday, His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury did something no Primate of England had ever done before, something that the Archbishop had frostily disapproved when upon previous occasions it had been done, or proposed, by lesser Anglican churchmen. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang celebrated Communion at St. Mary's altar for anyone-Orthodox Russian, Swedish Lutheran, U. S. Baptist or African Methodist-who cared to partake. And many a non-Anglican from all parts of the world did partake, for this friendly gesture, coming from one ordinarily so strict...
...Brothers who married Anne Spencer Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who lives well on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and planned after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President John Raleigh Mott, of the World's Alliance of Y, M. C. A.'s. Nonetheless...
Having split into a number of sections charged with preparing reports for general discussion, the assembled churchmen trooped off to committee meetings from which accumulated steam soon began to escape. Rugged-faced Reinhold Niebuhr threw his prepared speeches aside to declare: "If the millions who have drifted away from the Church may be classed collectively as the prodigal son, the church may be pictured in the guise of an elder brother who has antagonized...