Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of the controversy between Dr. Fisher of Canterbury and Bishop Barnes of Birmingham [TIME, Oct. 27], I note a penetrating description of a general problem of a "liberal" interpretation of the Christian faith. But I believe the conclusion that "the Apostles' Creed means what it says" is an oversimplification of a much deeper problem...
...Service Council to promote faith and international good will in Europe, India and China. In 1917, U.S. Quakers, unsatisfied with a purely negative form of pacifism, organized the American Friends' Service Committee to give any kind of help wherever it was needed, without consideration of politics, nationality or creed. Since 1929, the Committee has been administered by able, affable Clarence E. Pickett...
...will win the allegiance not of the comfortable but of the insecure and the impoverished. It is particularly important that America, as the most powerful and wealthiest of the nations in the western world, should acquire a higher degree of humility. Without it we will insist upon political creeds and political reforms which Europe regards not as the creed of democracy but as the characteristic prejudice of a very wealthy nation. . . . Without humility and the imagination to think beyond the characteristic prejudices of American life we cannot win the ideological battle against Communism...
Godlike Voice. Christiansen gets along with people. His journalist's creed is simply: "People, people, people!" This formula, plus his enormous energy, made him editor of Lord Beaverbrook's flamboyant Express at 29. In his first year, 1933, he raised the circulation 160,000, made the Express the world's biggest daily. And he has kept it there ever since. Into a four-page paper, Christiansen and his editors pack as many as 70 brisk, brief, breezy news stories, as well as pictures and features. They highlight them with tricky typography (when the "Ink Spots" quartet visited...
Unitarians crave a creed like a hole in the head. It is their boast that no member of their Association (they do not call it a church) could ever be tried for heresy. But Unitarians sometimes find that their cautiously passionate belief in free thinking does not accent the unity in Unitarianism...