Word: ockenga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Urging delegates to "think deeply or be damned," young Congregationalist Dr. Harold J. Ockenga, Association president and pastor of Boston's big Park Street Church (TIME, April 5), led off with an exhortation on literal v. liberal Christianity, passed naturally into a subject dear to all Fundamentalists...
Protestant dissatisfaction over the chaplain shortage also got an airing. Dr. Harold John Ockenga, pastor of Boston's Park Street Church (Congregational), back from visiting Army camps in 36 states, said many had too few chaplains. The 37-year-old minister blamed the dearth of volunteers on "the pacifistic attitude and teaching of the Federal Council of Churches. . . . Thousands of young men now in the ministry have adopted this attitude...