Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joined, helped found or led almost a score of organizations long since discredited by Communist infiltration. Melish's politics forced his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, out of his job as rector at Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The younger Melish hangs on as acting pastor in his father's church only because the bishop cannot fire an acting minister...
Ricochet Romance. In Hutchinson, Kans., Bill Dennis and Pat Gough finally said "I do" after a wedding day in which 1) Dennis forgot to pick up the license, 2) Pastor Lonnie Smith became ill, 3) the bride's brother failed to arrive, 4) the air conditioning blew out the church candles, 5) Dennis, waiting at the altar, discovered he had misplaced the ring...
...This is the "dying hour of Protestantism" in Germany, said Germany's neutralist-minded Pastor Martin Niemöller, as quoted this week in the Christian Century. "Should the forced partition of our people persist, then . . . Romanization threatens in the West in the near future, while the existence of Protestantism behind the Iron Curtain can at best continue for only one generation. At present, everything indicates that Romanization here and Sovietization there can hardly be opposed with a chance of success." If the state uses its authority to impose Christianity, says Niemöller, "Protestantism will...
...Talent for Politics. Recently, Pastor Grüber was criticized-this time by his own church synod-because he appeared at an East German "National Congress," publicly condemned the presence of U.S. atomic cannon in Germany, and called for a ban on nuclear weapons, a step the Russians favor. Pastor Grüber asked the synod to accept his resignation...
When word spread through Soviet Germany that Heinrich Grüber might go, consternation welled up among the Protestants. and protest rolled in. "There must be a way to relieve Pastor Grüber of his pastoral duties without necessarily jeopardizing his position as plenipotentiary ..." Said the weekly Potsdam Kirche: "Too many people are waiting for his services ..." Last week the Evangelical Church's Bishop Otto Dibelius announced that Grüber, though he would no longer be pastor of the Marienkirche, would continue his job of go-between. Said Heinrich Grüber as he went back...