Word: pastoralism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, on Sunday, he drove to the First Baptist Church in a torrential rain. With members of his party he sat near the rear. Pastor J. C. Yelton, who had had only ten minutes' notice of the President's arrival, sang the offertory solo himself, preached on the subject of peace. As the skies began to clear, the President decided to extend his vacation by two days...
...Haven's reaction-like that of most of the 53 cities in which Pastor Niemböller has spoken during the past 3½ months-was mixed. Most of the younger element left the meeting early enough to find out how the "Hillhouse" (New Haven High) basketball team came out in the state title game two blocks away...
Since he first arrived in the U.S. in December, Pastor Niemöller has been quoted and misquoted by his defenders and detractors on almost every phase of his relations with Naziism. The feeling against him has focused on the fact that his opposition to Hitler was on religious, rather than on political grounds. Few have understood that for a traditional Lutheran, religious grounds are the only valid ones for opposition to the state...
According to Professor John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary, Pastor Niemöller "now admits the social blind spot in his type of Lutheranism." It remains to be seen whether such a change is coming about in German Protestantism as a whole. Like Martin Niemöller, many another German has now learned that too much separation between church & state can be as unhealthy as too little...
Presumably hoping that Pastor Rockwood would change his tune, the court postponed sentence (admonition, suspension or excommunication) until next May. But militant Minister Rockwood promptly resigned. He said that he would "go out on the streets and from house to house like the apostles of old. . . ." At week's end, he was looking for a hall in which to start a church...