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...contributions to the guerrillas that provoked the angriest criticism of the council during the past few years and that apologists defended at the Geneva meeting. The discussion centered on a 13-page report on strategies for social justice prepared by a W.C.C. study group headed by Memphis Methodist Pastor James Lawson. The report saw three "options" open to contemporary Christians: 1) Nonviolent action as the only possibility consistent with obedience to Jesus Christ; 2) Accepting the necessity of violent resistance as a Christian duty in extreme circumstances, but applying to it criteria similar to those governing a "just...
...Scarlet Letter. A tightly packed and emotional version of the Hawthorne novel, dubiously referred to as a classic of American literature. Lillian "the It Girl" Gish shines as the Puritan wife who bears the local pastor's child, for she was one of the artists of the silent film who practiced the ultimate in method acting: no words at all. Channel...
Shoemaker says that liberals are "becoming painfully aware that the great social awakening which began in the '60s simply isn't going to come off." But Illinois Pastor Andrew Tempelman blames the liberals for losing by default. They got fed up and walked out, he believes, leaving churches in the hands of "the bigots, the warmongers, the peace-of-mind crowd and the good honest security seekers...
...dreamers had written a narration based on the Gospels and put together a tape of selections from Handel and Berlioz, which they played for John Lavender, the soft-spoken pastor of the First Baptist Church. He was quickly sold on the idea of a pageant, and soon found an anonymous angel who put up $20,000 to get production started...
...endowed her God with so intense a reality that His -- inevitable -- failure to appear when first challenged to do so cast the pall of being abandoned by God....over this child and her entire future." Accordingly Lou's successive mentors served the substitute function. From her childhood tutor, a pastor 25 years her elder, to her husband, who was "never her husband in the accepted sense of the word," to the Ur-father of the psychoanalytic movement, each took his turn in the position of the revered and remote paternal divine. As the correspondance itself testifies, the last and greatest...