Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-known Roman Catholic priest in Germany today is Father Johannes Leppich, 40, whom the Communists denounce as the "Black Goebbels," and conservative Catholics call the "Red Father." Leppich moves tirelessly across the country, preaching and demanding help for the poor. To spread his gospel, Jesuit Leppich has used posters, picture slides, and last week he was busy with a new evangelical idea: "confession" by telephone...
...first interplanetary padre, confronted by an antennaed Martian or fly-eyed Venusian, will hardly know what to say about the Gospel. First he will have to find out how the space creature stands with God: Is he in an unfallen state like Adam and Eve before the apple? Is he fallen but redeemed and, if so, how? Is he under the Lordship of Christ, and should he be baptized...
...Notes to Gospel. Smith has always been a keen student of war, and an advocate of infinite rehearsals and relentless training for battle. In practice, his theories paid off, and many of his battlefield notes have found their way into military training manuals and Marine Corps gospel...
...collegians do not expect, in a few months, to transform their charges into fervent churchgoers. Their long-range purpose: "To show people that the gospel is concerned with every phase of life-to give them a reason to live...
Flexible & Friendly. Over the century the Y.M.C.A. multiplied more than a hundredfold. It lost much of its early puritanism, expanded its services in every direction. A herald of the physical gospel, it celebrated its liturgy in the gymnasium, introduced sports into dozens of lands (basketball and volleyball are Y.M.C.A. inventions). Working with youngsters, teen-agers and adults, it taught everything from swimming and driving to painting and how to prepare for marriage...