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...everybody can be as cosmically insensitive as that, particularly when, as it sometimes appears, there is so much manure and so little grass. Actually, there is relatively less indignation from the pulpits of any denomination than one might expect. Says Harold Bosley, pastor of Manhattan's Christ Church Methodist: "The new license in the arts is one of the major problems in the church today. But none of us are interested in rigorous public censorship. We must help create an attitude of self-censorship and responsibility, otherwise we're dead ducks." And Baptist Minister Howard Moody...
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Graduating from Princeton in 1905, Thomas was ordained in the Presbyterian Ministry from Union Seminary in 1911. While serving as the pastor of a church in East Harlem, he gradually became a socialist, until his political views forced him out of the clergy. But like most other things, he now concedes, "the church has improved since I got out". Yet he remains to this day a profoundly religious man, and admits to grave doubts about ecumenism. "I'm troubled about how far we can go and still call it Christianity. What we really need is more honest conformity between what...
Said Springfield, N.J., Rabbi Israel Dresner: "There is a higher law in God's universe and that is God's law. There is a time when man must choose between man's law and God's law." George Docherty, pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, took the floor. "I'm here for three reasons," said he. "One, I think the fundamentals of the Christian church are at stake in this hour. Someone said this is the largest gathering of ministers since the Council of Trent. I'd venture...
Schizophrenic Belief. The Westminster Confession, drawn up in England and ratified by Parliament in 1648, has been the Presbyterian creed ever since. Most members of the church have long ago rejected the predestination and the Biblical inerrancy that are the confession's basis. But United Presbyterian pastors must take an ordination oath to "sincerely receive and adopt the Confession of Faith and Catechisms," even though most do so with declared reservations. The result, says Boston Pastor Sidney Menk, is "schizophrenic" for many. In 1958, the United Presbyterian Church appointed the Dowey committee to update the confessional beliefs...