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More and more ministers are studying inferiority complexes and suppressed desires, frustration and the subconscious mind, to put psychiatry to practical use in their pastoral work. Last week 200 of them from all over the country highlighted the trend by winding up Chicago's tenth annual Pastors' Institute with a five-day conference on "Religion and Personality Integration." They wanted to know how they could help parents and children to get along, particularly when they suspected it was the parents' immaturity that was causing the trouble. Where does the minister leave off in premarital counseling...
Asked what was their chief personal problem, the pastors at Chicago put their families far in the lead. The average minister seems to have more trouble adjusting to his family than to his congregation. Sample problems: a pastor whose wife was so active in the parish that he felt she was doing a better job than he and so felt inferior, children who did not behave as the congregation thought they should, a wife who was jealous of her husband's contacts with his women parishioners. Other pastoral worries: getting the jitters in the pulpit, inability to face...
Gary Cooper, the cinema's epitome of a natural American, plays Alvin York to perfection. He has admirable assistance: Mother York (Margaret Wycherly), Pastor Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan), York's sweetheart Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie) and a first-rate supporting cast. The picture also manages to produce an almost documentary description of the meager, resourceful life of the South's mountain folk...
...biggest Presbyterian church in the world (First Church, Seattle, 6,920 members) last week ended a 17-month battle over who should succeed the late, beloved, arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Mark A. Matthews (6 ft. 5 in. "Tall Cedar of the Sierras") as its pastor. Called by a vote of 349-to-83 (one-sixteenth of the congregation) was eloquent, diplomatic, athletic Dr. F. Paul McConkey of Detroit. During the 17-month squabble, the parish lost seven of its 26 branch churches, 1,100 members...
...only a poor Presbyterian pastor and none too familiar with Oliver W. Gilpin's Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Frankly I do agree with him that I too prefer to have the President "blessed" rather than merely given "wisdom." We Presbyterians ask that God may "look (upon him) with favor . . . imbue (him) with the spirit of wisdom, goodness, and truth...