Word: govan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to be a minister. After graduate study at Edinburgh, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland† in 1924 and was soon assigned to starchy St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums. But the church's Christian witness seemed to him no more effective among the poor than among the plushy; after eight years he resigned his pulpit and went to Iona...