Word: pastores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every year the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 members) elects a Moderator-a largely honorary but distinctly honorific post. In Minneapolis last week the church's 157th annual assembly chose tall, grey, bespectacled William Blakeman Lampe, pastor of St. Louis' big (1,500 members) West Presbyterian Church...
...whom Adolf Hitler dared not kill stood in the chancel of a little church in the Alpine village of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Only a few hours before, Pastor Martin Niem&2461ler, leader of Germany's Confessional Church-and one of Christianity's most effective anti-Nazi weapons-had been liberated by the U.S. Fifth Army. His first public act after eight years of imprisonment was to conduct a religious service, based on a text he had long since chosen for this moment...
...Pastor Niem&2461ler became an anti-Nazi the hard way. He was a staunch early-Party member. But when he saw how the wind was blowing, he stood up in his Dahlem pulpit and denounced Hitler's mumbo-jumbo racial theories. He also refused to put the will of Der F&252hrer above the will...
...Pastor Niem&2461ler is anxious to get back to work. He is certain that the church holds Germany's only hope for the future: "Our people now know that all false idealisms are worthless. . . . There is only one way in the future. . . . It is a tremendous challenge both to Catholicism and Protestantism not to let our people down at this moment...
...Pastor Youngdahl is no sawdust-trail evangelist. Quiet, forceful, hardworking, he preaches ten-to-twelve-minute sermons, studded with human-interest stories which relate Christian truths to modern living. He believes no minister need be a ranter: "I've got something to sell. The greatest thing in the world. Christianity works...