Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after two weeks of high-pressure translating for Billy: "Dr. Graham has such a lion's voice, so much power, and he speaks so rapidly, I can't let my mind wander a minute...
...Church of the Covenant, it is considered one of Washington's more fashionable places of worship, whose pewholders over the years included Presidents Jackson, Pierce, Polk, Grant, Cleveland and Buchanan. Baptist Harry Truman worshiped in its "President's pew" on each opening of Congress. Its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, who served as chaplain to the XXI Corps during World War II and is a friend of Ike's, calls it "a typical American congregation...
Church Career: Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) in 1921. He held city pastorates in Texas and Arkansas for 17 years, was once pastor of Dallas' roomy First Methodist Church (membership: 5,200). Elected a bishop in 1938, he presided over the Pacific Area (1939), then the Kansas-Nebraska Area (1939-48) of the Methodist Church. Since 1948 has been resident bishop of the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, a stronghold of U.S. Methodism. Already a vice president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, he is also scheduled to become presiding bishop of the Methodist Church next year...
...slightly different ways. Indian Hill holds Presbyterian and Episcopal services on different Sundays; St. Barnabas' uses a simplified liturgy at all its services. New members are received into both denominations, i.e., the bishop lays his hands on the confirmand in the Episcopal rite of confirmation, and the pastor then extends "the right hand of Christian fellowship," Presbyterian fashion. Both churches give part of their revenues to Episcopal and Presbyterian church agencies...
...Berlin's Protestant Bishop Otto Dibelius to visit him in Moscow. German Protestants are proud of bearded Bishop Dibelius, a courageous prelate who has again & again sharply attacked the Communists from the pulpit, and they hoped that he would make a more forceful impression on the Russians than Pastor Martin Niemöller, a political neutralist, who deprecated stories about Soviet religious persecution after his visit to Moscow in January (TIME, Jan. 14). While packing his bags, Bishop Dibelius made it plain that he intended to ask for the release of German war prisoners. Said he: "Without the hope...