Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strive for a "mutual recognition of ministries" as a first step toward recognition of members, suggested that local churches-even while prohibited from sharing the Lord's Supper-could grow together through "common worship, Bible study groups, prayer cells, joint visitation, common witness in our communities." At major interfaith meetings, intercommunion could be allowed even when union was not in sight. Perhaps, the report went on, the matter might better be resolved if unity meetings reversed the usual order of discussion, concentrated on what the Lord's Supper really was instead of on which church's ministry...
...Daniel Poling, 75, editor of the influential Protestant monthly, Christian Herald (circ.: 427,000), unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 1951, and an antagonist of Jack Kennedy's since 1950. It was then that a building-fund dinner was held in Philadelphia for an interfaith chapel within the Grace Baptist Temple (Poling's pulpit from 1936 to 1948) to be dedicated to the memory of the four famed Army chaplains who went down with the troopship Dorchester in 1943-including Poling's own son, Lieut. Clark V. Poling. Congressman Kennedy accepted an invitation to speak...
...Distance Advice. Paul was not only an evangelist; he made himself responsible for the long-distance administration of the churches he had founded, and this was a staggering task at a time when every problem was a new one. The problems of the church in Corinth alone included rituals, interfaith relations, millennialism, litigation, sexual irregularity, diet, women's dress and relations between slaves and masters, Christians and pagans...
...anyone could remember, it had never happened before: the same article was published simultaneously in the Protestant weekly Christian Century and the Roman Catholic weekly Commonweal. Appropriately, the article concerned better interfaith understanding. To further that cause, Presbyterian Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, professor of systematic theology at Manhattan's nondenominational Union Theological Seminary, undertook to set up "half a dozen ground rules" for conducting the growing "dialogue" between Catholics and Protestants...