Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While choirs in a thousand naves of Christian churches throughout Manhattan lifted their voices in the ancient glad Noels, while bells in the towers quivered with anticipation of midnight chimes to herald the eternal rebirth of the Babe, Pastor Holmes took the platform...
Christians err, announced Pastor Holmes, when they speak of the Resurrection: "There is not the slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title...
Said Rev. G. W. Enders, pastor of a rural Lutheran parish near York: "Nearly all of my congregation, perhaps, have been powwowed for, at one time or another. ... I just ignore...
Certain friends of Prof. William Lyon Phelps spluttered with alarm when they read last week that he had been installed honorary pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. They envisioned the famed teacher, talker, critic, nodding meek approval on the platform of Calvary Baptist of the harsh fundamentalisms of Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor-in-chief...
Bishop McDonnell is the sixth president the Council has had since it was organized 20 years ago. Two of his predecessors like himself have been Methodists; Dr. Cadman is a Congregationalist, a radio-preacher, a columnist on the New York Herald Tribune, and pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn. Before the convention opened he spoke briefly in Manhattan to the effect that he did not plan to accept $25,000 yearly to preach over the radio and to the effect that too many Protestant dollars are used to build hideous churches...