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Bulgaria has only 8,300 Protestants. The predominant sect (84%) is the Moscow-stooge Greek Orthodox Church. Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov comes from one of the country's few Congregationalist families. Last week, a U.S. Balkan expert noted that Dimitrov's first "revolutionary act" was refusal to go to Sunday school, his most recent was to jail 15 of Bulgaria's leading Protestant churchmen...
...went back to Duke for a B.D., earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Yale soon after joining the Divinity School faculty. From 1944 to 1948 Congregationalist Pope edited the magazine Social Action, and lectured at Manhattan's Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations. He arbitrated labor disputes, helped reorganize New Haven's Labor College, and grew to be well-known for his unflagging opposition to Communism in labor unions. His appointment by the Yale Corporation insured that the Divinity School would continue to emphasize what Pope himself calls the "study of society as it is, in relation to what...
Held at the First Congregationalist Church, directly opposite the Radcliffe Yard, the meetings adjourn in ample time for students to get to their first classes. Dean Mildred P. Sherman and Miss Helen Cam, Radcliffe's new professor, are frequent visitors to the meetings which average a daily attendance of 20 odd girls...
Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose Jr.,† 40, is an ex-Sunday-school teacher and an active Congregationalist. Last May he was made a lay preacher by the Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church (Washington, D.C.), but he is the first of A.U.B.'s four presidents not trained for the ministry.. Between Dodge and Penrose, there is another and more striking difference: Penrose is outspokenly pro-Arab. Resigning as a special adviser to Defense Secretary Forrestal last May, Penrose denounced U.S. recognition of the State of Israel in a letter to the New York Times...
According to Professor Roland H. Bainton of Yale University Divinity School, Christianity has taken three principal views of marriage-the sacramental, the romantic and the companionable. In the current issue of the quarterly Religion in Life, Dr. Bainton, a Congregationalist, sets all three attitudes in their historical perspective, which indicates that the modern,' "romantic" view is the least Christian...