Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Saturday's issue of the New York Herald-Tribune, Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, protested that he had been misquoted in reports of his address delivered at the Union recently. It was charged by Dr. Straton that some newspapers had quoted him as saying that, "He (a man to whom he was referring) had some elements of human decency about him, even if he was a Jewish Judge", while in truth he had said, "Though the judge was a Jew and not a Christian, and though he had in the case to deal with matters...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday John Haynes Homes, pastor of the Community Church of New York City, who has recently visited Russia and studied conditions there, out lined what he believes the world owes to the Bolsheviki. He pointed out that although a similarity exists between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution in that the two are the greatest liberating events in human history, the latter contains no incidents to compare with the horror of the Reign of Terror. It is due to the lack of perspective that people generally think that nothing exceeds the moral depravity...
Last week Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, liberalist extraordinary, saw one of his dearest ambitions approach its fulfillment when the cornerstone of his new Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, was set in place. Before Dr. Fosdick accepted the call to this pastorate in 1925, he made several express stipulations. Among these were: a) that membership in the congregation be open to all who accept evangelical Christianity, b) that Baptist rites and doctrines not be insisted on, c) that the new church be constructed somewhere near Columbia University. The trustees of the richest Baptist congregation in the world agreed to Dr. Fosdick...
...Frank Norris, fundamentalist extraordinary, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Tex., returned to national news dispatches last week by a means not even hinted at in his favorite Genesis. Save for local items, Dr. Norris had been out of print since a year ago last summer when he shot and killed one Dexter E. Chipps while the latter was calling on him (TIME, July...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, attended and argued for a form of confessional in Protestant churches as a means of relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems...