Word: communion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Durham: "Among Congregationalists there is at present a marked move away from humanism towards a much greater emphasis on the divine initiative. This emphasis is the result of a new awareness of the sovereignty and authority of God. In liturgical terms, Congregationalism now is about where the Anglican Communion was a century ago, before the High Church Oxford Movement...
...denomination's new Arts Guild "to foster religious use of the arts." This show was the first Salon of Religious Photography ever held. It featured before-&-after pictures of Congregational chancels that have been remodeled to put less emphasis on organ, organist and pulpit, make the communion table and cross the focal point...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, 85, Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Alaska, oldest active bishop in the Anglican communion; in Victoria...
...Nazis have just produced a "Na-tional Church Hymnal" which deletes all references to Jerusalem, Zion and anything else that might be considered "Jewish." It cuts the number of hymns from 500 to 284, omits entirely such favorites as Martin Luther's Communion and Easter hymns, adds many new hymns glorifying Nazi blood & soil doctrines. A new baptismal hymn, Tender Child of German Blood, runs: "We baptise thee that thou may be consecrated to the service of our people in loyalty...
...Nazi "communion" is henceforth to take place every year around Easter, to incorporate each year's new crop of youth into the party. Church Communions, as such, will not be prohibited, but the Nazis expect that the "civil communion" will draw most of Germany's youth, and that religious services for Germans are "doomed to be crowded out by the new life of new times...