Word: gospeling
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With no ifs, ands or buts, the Federal Council of Churches last week flatly denounced racial segregation as "unnecessary and undesirable and a violation of the gospel of love and human brotherhood...
Good Shepherd. Butler's crusty father, a Church of England canon, intended his son for the ministry. He was outraged when the young man refused ordination on the grounds that infant baptism was probably ineffectual and that the Gospel stories told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were too contradictory to be credible. The canon then ordered his son to become a schoolmaster or a barrister. Instead, Butler set sail for New Zealand and, helped by money from his father, became a prosperous sheep rancher. Five years later he returned to England, having sold...
...either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions reserved for God Himself. Said he: "We ought to give up ... every thought that the care of the Church, the care of the world, is our care . . . For just this is the final root and ground of all human disorder; the dreadful...
...advised that Bishop Oxnam of Methodists does not speak for Evangelical Christianity. Our first effort is not to alleviate anti-Semitism or to hinder racial discrimination, as is the good bishop's, but to preach the gospel of salvation through the shed blood of Christ-the message of John Wesley which many Methodists and others seem to have forgotten. John Wesley preached "Ye must be born again" (John...
...accident that Earl Warren had been chosen to spread the gospel of friendliness, moderation and teamwork. His whole life has been geared to just those principles. An energetic, workmanlike administrator, he has always taken pains to ruffle no feelings, stick close to the middle of the road, and work in close harness with his subordinates...