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Died. Cromwell Arthur Bedford Halvorson, 80, inventor and General Electric engineer, who turned Thomas Edison's original light bulb into a flood of stop lights, headlights and searchlights, most notably the arc light that in 1911 made Broadway the Great White Way; of a heart attack; in Salem, Mass...
Some Christians feel an occasional twinge of doubt over the busyness of their churches-the activities (see box) that seem at best irrelevant to the Christian mission. To Lutheran Theologian Loren Halvorson, the busyness of the "crowded temples" is worse than irrelevant; it is a threat to the vitality of the faith. Writing in the first issue of Dialog, a handsomely printed new Lutheran journal of theology, he foresees a radical regrouping of Christians, with the cadres of dedicated believers in an open and creative rebellion against the "organization church." Dr. Halvorson, assistant director of the American Lutheran Church...
...loyal to the church and her mission and yet severely critical of the organization church." To these believers, the church has become concerned chiefly with a wide range of useful but peripheral activities in a way harmful to the inner spiritual life of the church. From the dissenters, says Halvorson, comes "a serious urging for the withdrawal of the church into retreats, into a disciplined inner life, and into secluded communities...
Economy of Twelve. This ideal of a ''creative remnant" is not new to the church: at the beginning of Christianity there was "our Lord's peculiar economy of the twelve.'' Now, Halvorson says, the Christian remnant is visible in the growth of retreats, study groups, Christian cells, and disciplined lay communities-such as France's Taizé Community (TIME, Sept. 5. 1960)-dedicated to the preservation of Christian asceticism. "These communities are very small in size but extremely significant in pioneering new patterns for the church. Although they may seem little else than probes...
Fargo, N. Dak., minutes after Mrs. Garner Halvorson had finished singing "Bless these walls, so firm and stout" in the Plymouth Congregational Church, the plaster fell from the walk and part of the basement ceiling crashed to the floor...