Word: interchurch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mission is sponsored by six leading U.S. interchurch agencies: Federal Council of Churches, Foreign Missions Conference, Home Missions Council, International Council of Religious Education, Missionary Education Movement, United Council of Church Women. Between Nov. 1 and 20, the Mission will send some 90 notable clergymn and laymen in teams of three or four to about 100 cities in 40 states. They will hold one-day conferences with local church groups, climaxed by a public mass meeting at night...
Protestantism had its biggest meeting in U.S. history last week. Despite the war, more leaders came from more denominations to Cleveland than had ever before gathered at once. Before the conclave of seven big interchurch groups closed its participants...
...delegates to this first North American Ecumenical (interchurch) Conference represented every major Protestant and Orthodox communion in the Western Hemisphere, some 35 denominations in all. They passed no resolutions, came to no formal conclusions. But in their speeches and the reports of their discussion groups they affirmed a sweeping set of principles which presupposes a new society as clearly as those adopted last winter by the Church of England's great Malvern Conference (TIME...
...brisk, erudite, 59-year-old Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York. Son of an Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Temple was an Oxford don of philosophy at 23, a headmaster at 29, a bishop at 39, an archbishop at 47. A famed theologian and an ardent exponent of the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, he is likely to be first president of the still-organizing World Council of Churches. Said he at the conference...
...that will probably lead to the biggest merger in the history of U. S. Protestantism. The man: Dean Luther Allan Weigle of the Yale Divinity School. The job: presidency of the Federal Council of Churches. The merger: a fusion of the Federal Council with six other major interchurch agencies...