Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miller was primarily a churchman. He had just come from 25 years as pastor of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church--with a congregation made up primarily of laborers, social workers, and students. "I love this Church more than anything else in the world," he once told a friend...
Forming a new Department of the Church was Miller's most notable accomplishment. The Department offers courses in the relationship of the church to society and sponsors a field work program--in mental hospitals and prisons--for prospective ministers...
...Under Miller, the Divinity School sponsored the first major conference of Roman Catholic and Protestant scholars--in the spirit of the second Vatican Council--in 1963. A similar conference of Jewish and Christian scholars was held last year...
...administrative details of a practical ministry never interested him. His photographs of the Maine coast seemed to one colleague a symbol of Miller's uncluttered life. "He was a free...
While at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, a friend remembered, he was not interested in committees or attendance. When the church's spire was in danger of being condemned, however, Miller rallied the congregation into raising $45,000 for its renewal and spurred a drive for a new prayer chapel as well...