Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Must a Unitarian be a Christian? The question has bubbled through Unitarianism for years (temperatures reached new highs last May when the monthly Christian Register changed its name to the Unitarian Register). Last week another vote for the negative was cast when the temporary pastor of Washington's influential All Souls Church used his Sunday sermon to bow out of Christianity...
Friendly Ambassador. While shaping his "Utopian Department" of religion, Uncle Sid was still always available to students in trouble. He considered himself, says one colleague, not so much a teacher and preacher as a "Christian pastor." He arranged loans, gave counsel, often acted as a sort of friendly ambassador between a boy and his parents. He could cheer a room with his gift for mimicry or by sporting one of his large assortment of strange hats. But his burdens were often heavy. Once a graduate student came to him and tearfully blurted that he had incurable cancer. It was Uncle...
...does please nobody. When Floyd tries to recruit some beer-guzzling publicans for his choir, he scandalizes the pastor, who is devoted to muscular Christianity ("Yes, Christ is alive today, out in the field batting for us"). When Floyd laces into his choirwomen for turning the house of prayer into a den of cake sellers, the outraged ladies sing like hornets. Bank Teller Floyd has always regarded his life as a deposit for his wife and three kids, but when he fails to expire on schedule ("I wish he'd die and have done with"), they up and leave...
Glenview Community Church has no simple pastor with assistants but a "team ministry" of four clergymen, all equal in authority. Their church is a believe-as-you-like, worship-as-you-please fellowship of searchers, and the ministers' language often sounds less religious than sociological. Christians should develop a "relationship with God," enabling them "to live out their potential"; an eye must be kept on "fringe individuals"; the church is "developmental-task-oriented" and its beliefs are "anchored but open-ended...
...subject of temptation, Martin Luther once said: "You can't prevent the birds flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With this for his text, Swedish Director Ingmar (Torment) Bergman*has preached in this picture a sermon on sensuality that the pastor of Wittenberg would scarcely have said amen to. But the Swedes, whose notions about sex have changed since Luther's time, were tickled pink with the picture. So were a lot of European critics...