Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of my duties I visit about 140 Methodist churches in central Alabama each year. I can assure you that the gatherings which I attend are not given over to "Pope-hating." . . . The range of conversations includes: the essential need of church unity in support of the United Nations, furthering the cause of industrial peace, strengthening racial understanding and getting rid of racial antagonisms...
...TIME'S thanks to Methodist Frazer for pointing out that many Southern Protestants are concerned with more constructive courses than Pope-hating...
Three weeks ago Princeton Theological Seminary's John A. Mackay spoke his concern over Catholic clericalism and its "vilification" of Protestant leaders (TIME, March 25). Last week New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, chose the Catholic stronghold of Boston to set forth the Protestant grievance in spade-calling terms. Excerpts...
...little (125 Ibs.) man with unruly grey hair, a too-big nose and a small mustache, he is proud that he never had to take a drink or buy one to get a story. As a solid senior citizen of Lebanon, Ill., he sings a raspy bass in the Methodist choir, is a trustee of small McKendree College, writes editorials for his son's Webster Groves News-Times. He always carries a beat-up briefcase that holds his evening paper, his notes, a set of brushes...
...Author. Nicodemus is Author Walworth's fourth novel (the others: Faith of Our Fathers; They Thought They Could Buy It; Feast of Reason). Daughter of a Methodist minister, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Merle Crowell, Novelist Walworth lives in a remodeled farmhouse in Chappaqua, N.Y. Says her friend, Writer Grace Perkins, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Fulton Oursler: "She's small, she's trig, and if she isn't younger than her married daughter, her heart doesn't know it. Her spiritual essence is a faith that permeates everything she does...