Word: fatherhood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their religious beliefs than their own ministers? Among U.S. Methodists they are, according to a survey conducted by University of Illinois Professor David E. Lindstrom and released by the Methodist Division of National Missions. Almost all ministers and laymen reported their belief in such basic tenets as the fatherhood of God, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God's revelation as the Trinity. After that, the differences start cropping...
...resent the implication by certain liberal ministers that it is un-Christian to oppose integration. We believe that integration is contrary to the will of God ... is based on a false theory of the 'universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man.' We believe that integration is not only unChristian, but that it violates all sound sociological principles and is not supported by Scripture or by biological facts...
...cardinal. Though ten years Godfrey's junior. Cardinal Griffin was ailing for years,* and when he died last August, Godfrey was his obvious successor. At Westminster Cathedral's three-hour ceremony of enthronement this week, he pointed out that the Communist denial of God's fatherhood "means in effect the denial of the brotherhood of mankind." In Britain, "which is professedly Christian . . . in many ways men have gone aside from Christ's teaching . . . Who would say that the ideal of marriage has not steadily deteriorated? ... It will be my firm endeavor, under God, to bring...
...skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants and their sons and daughters from all the earth. We know, as our forefathers knew, the firm ground on which our beliefs must stand. Freedom is rooted in the certainty that the brotherhood of all men springs from the fatherhood...
Until July, 1952, fatherhood was always grounds for deferment, but in that month, it was cancelled to keep manpower up. But the needs for the services has so decreased in recent months that actually few fathers are called now. It is expected that the new deferment of fathers over 26 will be approved soon...