Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dusen turned for advice to the greatest Presbyterian preacher and pastor of his time, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Coffin advised him to do what he himself had done: study for a year at Edinburgh, then return for the rest of his training at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Van Dusen agreed, and thereupon began walking in Dr. Coffin's footsteps...
...love for the church of Jesus Christ is such that I cannot keep quiet when a defect becomes evident to me," writes the Rev. Edward S. Zelley Jr. of Trenton, N.J. in the current Christian Century. The defect that 34-year-old Pastor Zelley complains about is the average church's lack of emphasis on healing...
...candle and make a novena for her healing. Her Christian Science friend will send her literature telling her how to remove the consciousness of pain. Her cultist friend will give her an 'anointed cloth' to be laid on the afflicted part. Perhaps after a while, her pastor . . . comes to visit. The conversation is light and encouraging. Before he leaves, he offers a vague prayer for her healing. If she were to stand up at that moment and cry out, 'I'm healed,' he probably would collapse in a dead faint...
Gollwitzer, then 38, was an ordained Lutheran pastor who had spent two years in & out of Gestapo jails as a leading Christian anti-Nazi. He was Pastor Martin Niemoller's assistant in Niemoller's church at Berlin-Dahlem, and he took over the services there after Niemoller was arrested in 1937. Before he was drafted into the army, he had cheerfully collaborated with German Communists in the anti-Nazi resistance, and he had a European intellectual's theoretical respect for the Marxist solution. "To be leftist," he said later, "seemed a matter of honor...
...Russians were rudely disappointed in Pastor Gollwitzer, and he survived to tell...