Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Layman Rockefeller had warned the churches that their survival hinged on their joining in a "great rebirth," had urged them to "pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church. ... A life, not a creed, would be the test." He pleaded for "a more spiritual and less formal religion . . . not for modification of form but for its subordination to the spirit...
...letter published in the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, he charged that the Rockefeller statements "declare that baptism is unnecessary to church membership and that the Lord's Supper, although termed 'a sacrament,' is a symbol whose beauty is not always expedient. . . . The New Testament, the Creed and the agelong practice of the church do not concur with Mr. Rockefeller's evaluation. . . . The church [should] withdraw from the Federal Council, if the Council maintains and does not repudiate its seeming approval...
...State of New York, long used to pacing the Union in matters of social legislation, this week struck out on what may prove its most ambitious stride. The legislature passed and Governor Dewey signed a bill to outlaw employment discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin...
...neighborhood was a little hazy about the Mission's exact creed. Most of the people along the street were Irish or Polish Roman Catholics, and they took no interest in its services. But they often heard the organ wheezing away and saw clergymen piously coming & going-there was Father Raymond Norman, and Father Lyman Appleby, and Archbishop William F. Tyarks, a bony and ancient cleric. They all belonged to something called the American Catholic Orthodox Church. Everybody knew they Were not Roman Catholics-Mrs. Fitzgerald, who lived in a flat over the Mission, reported that they ate baloney last...
...Massachusetts F.E.P.C. bill, like that of New York, would lay penalties on employers who discriminate against workers because of race, color, or creed. Liberal forces throughout the nation are working to pass such laws in every state...