Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ransom became pastor of the Institutional A.M.E. Church on Chicago's South Side. He was shocked by the policy rackets in the big city: "Even the church members were using my Sunday texts as guides for selecting numbers to be played during the week." Determined to stop it, he conducted his own investigation, then announced a series of sermons which would reveal "the so-called respectable citizens who were backing this underworld industry." His office was promptly dynamited, says Reverdy Ransom, but he went right ahead with his campaign: "I delivered my sermons with a loaded revolver always within...
Upholding the position of the Roman Catholic Church will be Father George H. Dunne, S.J., author of "Religion and American Democracy" and pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Father Dunne's book was written as a reply to "American Freedom and Catholic Power...
Said stunned Moderator Kenyon: "We will await the formal writing of the judgment before determining our future course." Crowed victorious Pastor Arthur Acy Rouner of Cadman Memorial: "Our idea in the beginning was to save Congregationalism. We feel we have done that...
...after the technicians arrived at Hermannsburg's 200-year-old former inn, the lectures began. "Too many Christians," said Pastor Hans Juergen Baden of nearby Wienhausen, "think about the church as they would a doctor-only to be used in times of distress. Immediately after the war, in those grim days of defeat, the churches were full. Many of us, witnessing this, held high hopes of a rebirth ... of Christianity in Germany. But alas, we were wrong." But Pastor Baden is still hopeful: "The road to God is a long one, but even the most modest approach...
...door, Pastor Wischmann smiled, "Now that you've got the blueprint," he said, "it's up to you to fill...