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...store-front churches and several recreation halls and offices, all within a few blocks of each other, north of East 100th Street. It serves a 21-block area containing some 30,000 people, most of them Puerto Ricans and Negroes. The project is supported by eight Protestant denominations (Baptist, Congregationalist, Evangelical United Brethren, Methodist, Mennonite, Presbyterian. Reformed Church. Evangelical and Reformed), is regularly served by seven young ministers (two are women) and a staff of ten workers...
Souls of Dead Miners. Duncan Emrich, whose parents were Congregationalist missionaries, was born in Turkey and lived in Istanbul until he was 16. He went to Phillips Academy and soon began picking up degrees - from Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia (M.A.) in English, from the University of Madrid (D. en L. ) in Medieval Spanish and Arabic, from Harvard (Ph.D.) for a thesis on the Arabian philosopher Avicenna. In 1940 he moved to the University of Denver as an assistant professor. This changed everything...
...week the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (see below) voted to ordain women, but left the final decision on the matter up to the local presbyteries. Moreover, the cause of the distaff dominae got a new boost from Britain. The Rev. Elsie Chamberlain, 45, tall, dark and handsome Congregationalist minister, was unanimously elected chairman of the Congregational Union - top job in British Congregationalism...
...Congregationalist Chamberlain gets on well with her Anglican husband. "All it means is that we have two sermons to chew over on Sundays, instead of one," she says. "And of course we have some terrific arguments. My husband quite often starts off, 'Call yourself a minister?' Of course he considers that anyone who hasn't been 'properly' ordained, with the laying on of hands, has not really been ordained. Fortunately, we both like to argue . . . But sometimes he's rude about extempore prayers, or he'll say, 'Call yourself a church...
Ecumenical Symbol. Dean Brauer's team has had its troubles in getting organized. In 1943 four separate theological schools merged on the campus of the University of Chicago to become the Federated Theological Faculty: the University of Chicago Divinity School (Baptist), the Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregationalist), the Meadville Theological School (Unitarian), and the Disciples of Christ Divinity House. The resulting pool of teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked...