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Baptist Arrival. Plain-talking, liberal Harry Emerson Fosdick wanted to retire three years ago as pastor of the Riverside Church. His trustees persuaded him to wait out the war, later agreed to fix the date as his 68th birthday: May 24, 1946. Last week, with that date at hand, the congregation announced his successor, Robert James McCracken, 42, professor of church history and the philosophy of religion at Ontario's McMaster University...
...pool champion of Council Bluffs (Iowa) is the Rev. Jacob R. Perkins, 66, pastor of Council Bluffs' First Congregational Church. For 25 years, white-haired Pastor Perkins has been baptizing, marrying and burying Council Bluffs' Congregationalists. He has also become one of the town's best known and best loved citizens. He eats lunch and plays bottle pool at the Elks Club, joins the town's sportsmen on fishing expeditions on which his Job-like patience is legendary...
Last week Pastor Perkins had won new fame. His second novel, Antioch Actress, a chiaroscuro tale of early Christian heroism v. degenerate Roman paganism, was made the April choice of the Religious Book Club...
Early to Rise. Neither Marcus nor Cynthia is as interesting as their creator. Successively a stagehand and super in St. Louis theaters, then a semi-pro short-stop on Missouri baseball teams, Pastor Perkins went to Drake University, then to California's Berkeley Bible Seminary, became a minister...
...Pastor Perkins makes time for his writing (he also drafted International Rotary's Code of Ethics) by getting up early, cutting down on pastoral calls. His congregation would rather meet him in church, or at the Elks Club, or fishing...