Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snoddy, Tubby & Moody. Out of the army and in Transylvania College (Lexington, Ky.), Ford took his troubles to Psychology Professor Elmer Snoddy. Together they rapped tables, and Ford soon felt himself in his spiritual talents to be one with "Wesley, Luther, Swedenborg, Dwight Moody, not to overlook a high proportion of the saints." Miss Gertrude Tubby, secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research, encouraged the "young and eager psychic," and soon Ford was in London, way beyond the league of Snoddy, Tubby or even Moody. One night, several hundred pounds sterling worth of gems manifested themselves at a seance...
...pedagogues have proposed a "crash program" for science in the secondary schools. But the problem is not only science; a New Republic feature article disclosed that three quarters of the students in the South--on into their freshman classes at college--couldn't identify Aaron Burr, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther, or Aristotle ("one of Christ's disciples," wrote a college freshman). Parents, employers, and college instuctors are discovering that great percentages of youth can't spell properly, read quickly, write legibly, or express themselves comprehensibly...
...Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons is not only trying to make the United States stop nuclear tests. They have sent a delegation to Moscow, via London, to talk to both British and Russian leaders about cessation of tests. One member of the delegation is Bayard Rustin, secretary to Martin Luther King...
...John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary; Congregational Dean John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; Baptists Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (retired) and Dr. Robert J. McCracken of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church; Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala. ¶The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Board of Missions threw its 1,800,000 members behind an appeal to the U.S. Government "to abandon its inflexible position on disarmament and to explore the possibility of dealing separately with ways...
Since God has ordained marriage, wrote Martin Luther, it is good for a priest to take a wife. But the founder of Protestantism, who did not marry until he was 41, might be surprised at the latest trend among U.S. Protestant ministers-marriage while still in seminary. Married students in leading seminaries rose from 15% in 1935 to 36% in 1955 to 60% last year...