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Station KPIX, was not put on by the patients of a mental hospital or members of the Society to Stamp Out Christianity. It was a religious show, staged by a Congregationalist mission that is run by an ordained minister. The experiment is so far out that many a Congregationalist would question whether the Bread and Wine Mission of San Francisco's North Beach district is in the church at all. But the Rev. Pierre Delattre has no doubt whatever about...
...some taverns and coffee houses of its own. Then he heard that the Rev. Robert W. Spike, a general secretary of the Congregational Board of Home Missions, was interested in organizing the same kind of experiment. Delattre promptly applied for the job, landed it, and became a Congregationalist. "I'm not denominationally inclined," he explains. "I don't think of myself as a Protestant, but as a Christian in the primitive sense...
This odd inquisition was set up by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 67, articulate firebrand of his church's liberal wing. Although the bishops talked with Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Christian Church), with Quaker-born (Presbyterian-attending) Richard Nixon, and Congregationalist (Methodist-attending) Hubert Humphrey, only Candidate Kennedy was quizzed on the church-and-state issues...
...people disapproved. "Perhaps," said Baptist Miller, "we've reached the point where these traditional divisions are no longer terribly important-and we've learned to take each other less seriously." Yet quite a few people were surprised at his appointment to succeed retiring Congregationalist Douglas Horton, 67: Harvard, with such top scholars on its faculty as Paul Tillich, Richard Niebuhr, Amos Wilder, and Britain's Christopher Dawson, had chosen a parish pastor...
...School Forum on "Unifying the Christian Church" will be held this Friday at 8 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School and a Congregationalist, Julian V. Casserly of the General Theological Geminary, an Anglican, and Gustave Weigel S.J., a Catholic, will discuss the problem...