Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Conant expressed regret that the spirit of the American "reformer" has been broken in recent years under the burden of reactionary and fanatic Communist pressure. He referred to "the successful attempts by certain groups and individuals to undermine the status of all reformers... The conviction of Alger Hiss and...
¶ Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune: "Witness . . . is the self-dramatization of a soul, haunted by morbid guilt and touched with religious passion, a 'confession' and one of the extraordinary documents of our time."
As usual, the Convention noted a big increase in Southern Baptists: up 293,659 from last year to a total of 7,373,498, double the membership a generation ago. Warned Convention President James D. Grey: "The glory of this achievement is greatly reduced when we consider that it took...
Like so many of Stephen Spender's "generation of Hamlets" who saw the world out of order. Orwell went to Spain to fight in the menace of Fascism. He fought in the Trotskyite (POUM) militia was wounded and later fled the country when the Stalinist groups blackballed the POUM in...
The revived Lutheran confession, unlike the Roman Catholic sacrament, is voluntary and not regarded as essential to salvation. Any Christian, the synod declared, whether ordained or not, may hear another's confession and grant absolution; if the penitent believes and is genuinely sorry for his sins, he is truly...