Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last twelve years, the Rev. Charles Miles Jones, 46, has been pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church. He is one of the most popular pastors the church has ever had. His short, conversational sermons on basic ethical problems attract such large crowds that an extra service has had to be added to the church's Sunday schedule. He has even built up a following among University of North Carolina undergraduates...
...whose friends call him "the finest Christian in the community," Pastor Jones has strong views about race segregation. He likes Negroes to come to his church, and this policy, even in "liberal" Chapel Hill (pop. 9,177), has raised many Southern eyebrows. One night in 1948, after he had given shelter to some Negroes who were in trouble, his house was stoned...
Only the Bulletin Board. As churchmen, Pastor Jones's fellow Southern Presbyterians cannot quarrel with his views against race segregation, for the church has abolished its last segregated Negro synod-fulfilling the letter as well as the spirit of the law. But a few members of the congregation protested that Pastor Jones was too intent on social reform and racial brotherhood to tell them much about the doctrines of salvation. Complained one former church officer: "Except for the sign on the bulletin board in front, you'd never know it was a Presbyterian church...
...group of Pittsburgh's leading citizens gathered last week to hear a unique kind of promotion talk. The speaker marshaled his facts with the assurance of a man describing an appealing new bond issue, but he was, in fact, a Christian minister: the Rev. Roy A. Burkhart, pastor of Columbus, Ohio's First Community Church. The organization that Preacher Burkhart was selling is called World Neighbors, Inc. It is a bold attempt to fight Communism in the world's underdeveloped areas with a mixture of technical enterprise and Christianity by example. To the men gathered to hear...
...Laubach, who has taught millions of Asians and Africans to read through his international literacy program (TIME, June 28, 1943); International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas ("Think") Watson; Manhattan's Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization, as he sees it: to recruit enough money and personnel in the U.S. for an intensive five-year program of practical...