Word: pastoralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oklahoma City's northern edge, in 41 acres of what was once part of a golf course, workmen are busy this week installing an organ in the Church of Tomorrow. That is what Pastor Bill Alexander calls it. Some Oklahomans refer to it as Space Headquarters, and that is all right with Pastor Bill. For his First Christian Church is all but out of this world...
...with its 50 schoolrooms (each with its own washroom), its movie and sound equipment, its $50,000 kitchen ("The women had their way here"), its 500-capacity dining room looking out over the parking lots (675 cars when completed) and outdoor theater (where Miss Oklahoma was picked last month). Pastor Alexander proudly shows off the deeply carpeted little theater-in-the-round, now used by dramatic and ballet groups. "This is our jewel box." he explains. "But from the outside it just looks like a pimple." The concrete, 150 ft. bell tower near by will house an electronic carillon system...
...Same Kind of Guy. The Rev. William Hamilton Alexander seems to know what his people need. In fact, he knows his people so well that in the 14 years he has been pastor of Oklahoma City's First Christian Church, he has managed such pastoral unconventionalities as Sunday evening dances in the church recreational hall, an address to the state legislature urging repeal of liquor prohibition, a race for the U.S. Senate (against "Mike" Monroney), and a quiet domestic interchange (a campaign aide married the former Mrs. Alexander, and Pastor Bill married the ex-wife of the aide, after...
...changed his mind, took over a dilapidated little church in Stroud. Okla., and made up his college work at the same time, graduating cum laude from the University of Tulsa in 1939. After two years of graduate work at the University of Chicago and a year as pastor in Los Angeles, he was ready to move in on oil-rich Oklahoma City...
Love's Comedy originally engendered violent outbursts of indignation. And no small part of it was aimed at Ibsen for daring to bring a clergyman on stage. But Ibsen went still further and made him the butt of satire, epitomized by the fact that the pastor has twelve children, eight of whom troop back and forth through the set--all of them girls--and his wife is again pregnant (and will doubtless present him with a thirteenth girl...