Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegate-scrounging was not Scranton's mission- not yet. Instead, what he had to do was build an image, not just as an energetic, articulate, moderate alternative to Goldwater but, far more important, as a Republican who might give Democrat Lyndon Johnson a terrific fight in November...
...would play Luther are notably rare in the Roman Catholic Church today, and Father Du Bay became something of a national celebrity. A fresh-faced man of 29, he had twice been transferred from parishes on charges of pressing for civil rights with excessive zeal. He then applied for mission service in Kenya, and instead was made administrative assistant in a mostly Negro parish in Compton, an industrial suburb of Los Angeles. Impressed by his parishioners' passionate concern for equality, Father Du Bay did a slow burn. One morning fortnight ago, he said Mass, then went to the Greater...
POLARIS SUBMARINE: JOURNAL OF AN UNDERSEA VOYAGE (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). The nuclear-powered sub George Washington on an actual operational mission. Repeat...
...worked as a cashier in a Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...Gospel cannot be preached to the hungry until they are fed, as the mission romantics claim, "then this is no Gospel with any saving power, this is no Word of God which has authority over the power of death. The Gospel is a Word which is exactly addressed to men in this world in their destitution and hunger and sickness and travail. The church must trust the Gospel enough to come among the poor with nothing to offer the poor except the Gospel, except the power to apprehend and the courage to reveal the Word...