Word: nonsectarianism
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...American Guild of Organists, 6,000 strong and "absolutely nonsectarian," met in Manhattan last week. During the meeting outstanding members played in various churches and auditoriums, and the meeting as a whole learnedly considered its common instrument - one which offers perhaps more potential trouble than any other in existence...
...Love or Family Troubles? From a 187-year-old, cream-colored Colonial house called "Dutch Oven" (it was once a tearoom by that name) at Noroton, Conn., went out hundreds of copies of this letter last week. The printed signature: "Your Sincere Friends in LIFE-STUDY FELLOWSHIP"-a nonsectarian organization which has no church, no groups of people meeting together any where, but which dispenses its philosophy ("the practical application of Christian principles to the problems of modern living . . .") solely through the mail...
Dean Sperry discussed the nonsectarian character of the Divinity School, raising the question whether an independent school of this sort "can effectively serve the formally organized denominations into which American Protestantism is divided...
...being deficient at most of the crucial points. But persons who are more interested in religions as a whole than in denominations, think that we have a distinctive mission . . . . The drift of the times is away from further sectarianism and towards interdenominationalism and even formal Church unions. Our nonsectarian character, therefore, would not seem to unfit us for the future...
Believing that a look at the past is worth two at the present, the pacifist Christian Century (nonsectarian weekly) last week began printing a condensation of the best available study of parsons' wartime behavior - Preachers Present Arms, by Sociologist Ray Hamilton Abrams (Round Table Press). When he wrote his book six years ago, Sociologist Abrams was skeptical of clerical calm-downs between wars, pointed out that western civilization possesses "perhaps the greatest war book known to man"-the Bible...