Word: pastoralism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under the two-fisted leadership of a handsome young ex-insurance salesman, Jack Wyrtzen, whose zest for life had previously found its outlet in playing the trombone for a cavalry band. It mushroomed in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and then in 1944 Baptist Torrey Johnson (pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church) organized "Chicagoland" for Christ, quickly took over as a national leader. Today Y.F.C.'s rough estimates-there are no others-put the movement's strength at 300 "units" in the U.S., 200-odd more overseas. Average attendance at rallies: 350. Biggest Y.F.C...
Your Dec. 24 issue under Religion carried a reference to a U.S. Army chaplain who, finding the little Waldensian congregation in Cerignola without a pastor, took charge of it and "for a whole year exercised in that place a brotherly ministry. . . ." The man referred to was Chaplain Martin H. Scharlemann of the 43rd Air Service Group, which had its HQ in that town, and of which the undersigned was the historian...
Each week 4,000-odd letters like these pour into the office of plain-speaking Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of the National Radio Pulpit. Rated by volume of fan mail. Methodist Sockman of Park Avenue's swank Christ Church is No. 1 Protestant radio pastor of the U.S.* Since good, grey, Congregationalist S. Parkes Cadman pioneered the field in 1923, radio religion has become a national institution, is preached to an estimated congregation of ten million...
...Repentance Day services, pastors underlined the guilt of the German Protestant church itself. Said Dachau's No. 1 ex-prisoner, famous Pastor Martin Niemöller...
...innocent party" may remarry, but only with the approval of his bishop. Elliott's second and third marriages (to Ruth Googins in 1933 and Actress Faye Emerson in 1944) were performed without episcopal sanction, the first by a retired Congregational minister, the second by a Methodist pastor in a glassed-in observation station at Grand Canyon, Ariz...