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...Congregationalist Pope questioned whether a so-called mass audience for religious programs really exists at all. "No matter what we do, we will not compete successfully with Jackie Gleason for the audience out there, not even if we give away free trips to Palestine or old church pews for use as lawn benches. The mystical hope that some Protestant equivalent of Bishop Sheen will arise to speak for us to the vast missions is an unworthy delusion. In the first place, any such voice would be out of keeping with the Protestant emphasis on the necessity that each individual find...
Among the denominations most heavily represented are the Congregationalist and Presbyterian churches...
...loving son of respected Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. Later Oak Park's people wondered, as one of them put it, "how a boy brought up in Christian and Puritan nurture should know and write so well of the devil and the underworld." (He was born a Congregationalist, became a practicing Roman Catholic, now apparently does not go to church). The city room of the Kansas City Star saw him fresh out of high school and itchy for excitement. He left after only seven months of covering "the short-stop run" -police, railroad station, hospital. He lied about...
What to Do. Almost every major denomination reported that it has set up a special department to pep up its rural ministry. Some have established bustling "group ministries" or "yoked field" plans in which three or four pastors move into an unchurched district. A Congregationalist delegate reported that in Broadus, Mont, the Rev. Harold Heckman, a former missionary in India, has built a central community church from which he and his wife serve six rural communities in an area the size of Connecticut. All six have consolidated their denominational congregations, and Mr. Heckman ministers to them all, using a Piper...
...conclusion of the Salina conference was that all rural churches should get rid of their "excessive denominationalism." Said Congregationalist Delegate Stanley U. North: "In the country denominationalism is an anachronism. The whole community is the important thing to think about...