Word: origen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission consists of sixteen churchmen and laymen including Colorado's Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, Missouri's Bishop William Scarlett, longtime Director of the Russell Sage Foundation John Mark Glenn, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, and Justice Origen S. Seymour of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas. Three years later the commission persuaded the Church to split Canon 41 for the first time, by permitting pastors to remarry a) the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, b) those who had secured annulments for any of nine premarital...
...more details than the others concerning the man of Kerioth in Judah. Still later, after everyone who might have known about the events had died, sects such as the Cainites came to believe that Judas acted as he did to hasten the redemption of mankind, and the scholar Origen maintained that the betrayer hanged himself to seek Christ's forgiveness as soon as possible in the next world. And somehow there crept into Judas-lore a famed, odd detail: that Judas hanged himself upon a flowering tree whose blossoms turned red in shame. The Judas or redbud tree flourishes...
Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret. Newsman John Origen Herrick and Newswoman Genevieve Forbes dashed happily away, were married on schedule, had three whole days' honeymoon. They were back on the job Sept. 10, just in time to hear Judge Caverly sentence Loeb & Leopold to life imprisonment...