Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 26 account of a young and inexperienced pastor getting his vestments singed is revealing. Sex is what you make it. For his students' parents, sex apparently is still a bestial pleasure, more lucid in the dark than in the vernacular...
...pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...
...little mining town in Ontario find happiness with a continental pastor who has advanced ideas? Last week Cobalt (pop. 2,400) was all riled up about Pastor Helmuth Ludwig Wipprecht and the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery...
...Pastor Wipprecht. 29, who was born in Germany and polished at Heidelberg after schooling in the U.S. and Canada, divides his time between the Cobalt United Church and the public school, where he teaches religion. When his seventh-grade pupils came to the seventh of the Ten Commandments this spring, Pastor Wipprecht wrote three questions on the blackboard, told the children to copy them and take them home to their parents. The questions: 1) How does a baby start growing? 2) What does the term sex relations mean? 3) How much should I know about the biological side...
...Canadian press and radio picked up the scent, and all Cobalt began getting into the act. "The man's an ass -a typical Prussian,'' growled Druggist Frederick Shaw. "What would happen if everybody came out and said just what they thought, like he does?" Last week Pastor Wipprecht defended himself before the school board, was reinstated on condition that he teach religion without mentioning sex. "If I am not to be allowed to teach the Seventh Commandment," he said, "I shall have to quit. And how I shall do that without using the word...