Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching. In its zeal to get the best for its pulpit, the church has not confined itself to Englishmen (City Temple has had four U.S. ministers and one Australian) or to Baptists and Methodists, Britain's chief nonconformist denominations; in 1917 its minister was an Anglican woman, Dr. Maude Royden...
When it ended last week, the crusade was a clear success. Some 3,000,000 Argentines had flocked to the Buenos Aires cathedral, the number of Communion-receivers increased threefold, and baptisms and marriages numbered in the thousands. "The problem now is to keep up the good work," said Bishop Manuel Menendez. "This...
...Substituted a 10,000-word statement on Holy Communion for the 250-word statement in effect for 20 years. The new policy, which will guide 4.872 United Lutheran pastors, tentatively opens the door to celebration of Communion with Protestants of other denominations...
...WALLIE CRISWELL, 50, pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church, the world's biggest,* with 12,000 members. A skilled evangelist who began preaching at 17, practices closed Communion and opposes dancing, Criswell is strongly anti-Kennedy, calls Catholicism a "political system that, like an octopus, covers the entire world and threatens our basic freedoms." He also condemns integration: "We'll all stand together in judgment before the Lord, but I think we can worship better our separate ways...
...CARLYLE MARNEY, 44, fiery minister of the Charlotte (N.C.) Myers Park Baptist Church, practices open Communion and has fought segregation for years. He tells businessmen that "the profit motive is ethically bankrupt." A staunch believer in church-state separation, he wants religious teaching banned from all schools, nevertheless dubs religious opposition to Kennedy "prejudice," and slaps Baptist extremists as "Holy Roller Catholics who are creating an emotional authoritarianism which is far more rigid than Roman Catholicism...