Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wesley Shrader looks at the ministry from a different perspective: he is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. His slim book, Dear Charles (Macmillan; $2.50), is a light but merciless exposé of the rituals of tinkling cymbalism. It is more disturbing than Gantry because it could easily pass as the handbook of many a modern clergyman...
Steaming back into the U.S. after a 4½-month European crusade, Evangelist Billy Graham immediately fired a shot heard across the Atlantic. Said he: "Morals in Scandinavia are very low - particularly sexual morals." His fire was promptly returned. Snapped one of Denmark's own moral crusaders, Lutheran Pastor Boerge Hjerl-Hansen : "Before throwing stones, Graham ought to think twice. After all, he is a citizen of the country where the Kinsey Report was published." ∙∙∙ Discharged from suburban Washing ton's Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he was laid up after his heart attack (TIME, July...
...Pastor Crist would not recant, instead announced that he was determined to continue voicing his views as a teacher. Then, his status as pastor uncertain until the general synod meets in Milwaukee next May to take final action on his case, he took off with his family for a vacation in northern Wisconsin...
...John Gerberding, one of the two other pastors who may later face trial for heresy, was Pastor Crist's aide at the trial. The tribunal launched into vigorous questioning of Crist's views, even stood around after sessions debating theological points with him. In a sense, the scene was a strange re-enactment of Martin Luther's famed debate at Leipzig (1519) with Roman Catholic Theologian Dr. John Maier of Eck, who clearly demonstrated that Luther was at variance with basic Catholic doctrines...
After two days of examination, it was obvious that, try as it might, the committee could not reconcile its views with Pastor Crist's. Its verdict: guilty of nine of the 14 charges. Recommendation: immediate suspension from the ministry...