Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first broadside of the 1948 presidential campaign. Before 1,300 cheering Ohio Republicans in Columbus, U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft† opened his "campaign last week by raking the Truman Administration from prow to poop, blasting its domestic policy and its foreign policy and praising the Republican Congress for crimping the powers of the executive. He exposed himself to the hot fire of counterattack, but that would hardly dismay Ohio's Taft...
...issue was decided once & for all during World War I, when one of young Soldier Burkhart's best friends, who had hoped to be a minister, was killed. Roy made up his mind to enter the church. Today Dr. Roy Burkhart, pastor of the First Community Church of Columbus, Ohio, is the whirring dynamo of the growing community-church movement and an outstanding U.S. churchman...
...matrix of spiritual life, and within this group relationship he apportions the church's liturgy, recreation, social work, preaching and prayer. His blueprint for his True Church is not mere speculation; many of the specifications have been met in his own grey limestone, suburban First Community Church of Columbus...
Exuberant Statistics. In 1935, when husky, black-haired Roy Burkhart went to Columbus, the First Community Church had about 225 active members and a debt of $147,000. The minister's staff consisted of a secretary, a janitor, a part-time choir director and a part-time organist. Today the church has 3,670 active members, a 1947 budget of $108,838 and a full-time staff...
...influence, as well as his aspirations, extend far beyond Columbus. In 1944 he helped form the Ohio Association for Community-Centered Churches; in 1946 the National Council of Community Churches was founded (he is now its president...