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PAUL S. JAMES Pastor The Baptist Tabernacle Atlanta
...Burkhart family of Cumberland County, Pa. the issue was decided once & for all during World War I, when one of young Soldier Burkhart's best friends, who had hoped to be a minister, was killed. Roy made up his mind to enter the church. Today Dr. Roy Burkhart, pastor of the First Community Church of Columbus, Ohio, is the whirring dynamo of the growing community-church movement and an outstanding U.S. churchman...
...Burkhart wins such hard-to-get parishioners with his regular-guy sincerity and his easy scorn of cant or ecclesiastical primness. Once, when a high-school audience began to settle back in boredom at being addressed by a pastor, he told them the story of the girl who called her boyfriend "Pilgrim" because every time he came over he made progress. The principal never asked him back, but the audience listened hard after that...
...dynamo of high-voltage good will, Dr. Poling has been at various times author (20 books published, including five novels), pastor, radiorator, lecturer, world traveler, columnist and editor. In 1921 he broke his back in an automobile accident, but that scarcely slowed him down. Last month he was awarded the War Department's Medal for Merit for his morale-building efforts in World...
Slick-Paper Religion. As pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church (1923-30) and Philadelphia's Baptist Temple (since 1936), Dr. Poling has managed to be at home often enough to keep his congregations happy. (He thinks he is the only living member of both the Dutch Reformed and Baptist Churches.) In 1927 he became editor of the Christian Herald, a slick-paper religious magazine which gives deep theological issues short shrift, keeps its religion simple and down to earth...