Word: pastoralism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were making plans to reunite their splintered sects. In Buffalo last week, Northern Presbyterians (the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.), with 2,300,000 members, held their 161st General Assembly, elected a moderator from the South for the first time since 1834. Assemblymen hoped that Dr. Clifford E. Barbour, pastor of Knoxville's Second Presbyterian Church, might speed a merger with the 660,000 Southern Presbyterians (the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.) who have been on their own since the Civil...
...into his car and drove aimlessly until he chanced upon the First Congregational Church on Franklin Boulevard. Its slogan beckoned like a beacon: "Only a Stranger Once." Stewart went in, sat through the service and wrote a folksy column for the Press about the church, its frock-coated, friendly pastor and its "mighty fine" mixed choir...
...next day, Harry Truman gave his pastor at the First Baptist Church his own explanation for his robust health: "I've had to work so hard all my life I've never had time to get into mischief, and that accounts...
Blonde Cinemactress Virginia Mayo, 26, appeared to two men to be the answer to a problem. "The Sultan of Morocco told [her] that she was for him the most striking proof of God's existence," said the Rev. A. J. Long, 29-year-old bachelor pastor of Britain's Southwark Unitarian Church. "Why not?" mused Pastor Long. "The beauty of woman is a revelation...
...moralist groups. This past year, the Academy in its first recognition of foreign-language films, gave its "Oscar" to "Monsieur Vincent," a film dealing with the struggles of a Roman Catholic saint, by-passing one of the finest films of our times "Symphonie Pastorale," which is about a Calvlnist pastor...