Word: evanston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CANON OLIVER S. TOMKINS, 46, of Lincoln, England is the theological brain of Evanston. A member of the "Faith and Order Department," he drafted dozens of working papers. Born in China, the son of a clergyman, Tomkins knew the dangers of missionary work from childhood. Says he calmly: "I reckon I'm the last man to have had an uncle eaten by cannibals...
...child is not enough, nor is two," according to Fisher. "Three would be all right, because then the children can outvote the parents." He and his wife Rosamond ("Roz"), a greying, matronly and whip-smart delegate to Evanston, have six-all of them boys.* So far they have given the Fishers four grandchildren-all girls. "We just decided to change sexes," explains the archbishop...
...Evanston. Much of the Evanston debate went on in Northwestern University's McGaw Hall, where delegates sat under high, bare steel arches. Yet there was a special kind of excitement at Evanston that could not have been created by organ music and pageantry: it was provided by the delegates themselves. Anyone who wanted to sense the distant scenes of Christianity's mission, the hymn of its work and the constant drama of its struggle for souls had only to meet the delegates...
...onetime Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a Highlander who is an authority on moral philosophy; Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India, one of the oldest churches in Christendom. There were other delegates, some hitherto obscure, who made their mark at Evanston. Among the outstanding leaders...
...Church of South India. In his diocese most people are still so poor that ministers cannot live on their salaries, have to find other work. Says the bishop: "Ours may largely be a tentmaking ministry, in the sense that St. Paul supported himself as a tentmaker." At Evanston brilliant, hard-driving Bishop Newbigin is head of the committee charged with drafting the assembly's final message...