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Perhaps, in little unpainted churches or in turpentine clearings, the preacher, who soon became the pastor and social leader of his wretched people, gave the lead...
Sacramental Shock Troops. It is these changes in rural Iowa that have set 20-year-old Ruth Greenwood and others like her on their pastoral rounds. Last August, when brisk, cheerful Rev. Gene Carter, 30, took charge of the Warren County Group ministry, he found no less than 21 Methodist churches serving a population of 17,000. Eight of the churches had closed; the remaining 13 were getting along with three full-time ministers and "supply" preachers. Pastor Carter, a teacher of sociology and Christian leadership at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa), decided to throw his students into the breach...
Christian Politics. Walking among the delegates as a symbol of both totalitarian oppression and church unity was frail Pastor Martin Niemöller, who after eight years in concentration camps is a leader of Germany's newly combined churches.* His presence helped the assembled churchmen to see that the Council's major objectives-upholding the Christian witness in the secular world, and uniting the Church of Christ-were really two different aspects of the same thing...
...Just arrived with his wife for a U.S. lecture tour under Federal Council auspices, Pastor Niemöller drew the fire of Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...