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...used to think missionaries spent their time making speeches to crowds of eager natives. Not a single missionary here is pastor of a church. They are school superintendents, nurses, farm supervisors and orphanage attendants...
...Criswell, pastor of the largest Southern Baptist Church in the United States,* went to Ibadan to preach last Sunday. The African pastor announced he had decided to preach himself. The white preacher sat in the pew and listened to a sermon in a foreign language . . . The Africans [determine] the policies of the churches . . . The missionaries have no authority over the natives except that which love provides. There has been much service in the past, so there is much love...
Brush-haired, 33-year-old Episcopal Minister Robert M. Muir found himself last week just where it seemed he wanted to be-in boiling hot water. A long-time propagandist against the cold war, he had been fired as temporary pastor of two churches in Quincy, Mass. (Christ Church and St. Chrysostom's) for preaching straight down the Communist line...
...Young Pastor Muir first got in trouble with his parishioners by signing the Communist-sponsored Stockholm Peace Appeal against the use of atomic weapons (TIME, July 24). Then he began sounding off from the pulpit against "national idolatry" and "my-country-right-or-wrong" patriotism. By last week both congregations had had enough, but the Rev. Robert Muir had no intention of changing his ways. "I preach the Gospel as I see it," he said cheerfully. "We need to mobilize for peace...
Last week Pastor Fehsenfeld filed a motion for a new trial. He had done nothing illegal, he claimed, and the Santa Claus incident wasn't worth all that com motion. But he had a point to make on the subject, and he made it again: "Some people are more interested in teaching their children there is a Santa Claus and an Easter bunny than teaching about the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection. To teach your children it is a fact that there is a Santa Claus...