Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions asked him to take a leave of absence from his Harlem pulpit last year and tour Europe and Asia as an ambassador-at-large, Pastor Robinson accepted. He had something to say about his country and its churches. In interviews since he got back, and in a series of articles ending in this week's Presbyterian Life, Robinson tells how it went...
Admit the Worst. In five months Pastor Robinson spoke to at least 400,000 students (he averaged four speeches a day). Indians followed him on trains, begging him to stay longer. Japanese Buddhist priests brought their friends to hear him. In Berlin, during the 1951 Youth Rally, he argued into the small hours with young Communists. Wherever he went in Asia he ran into Jim Crow in reverse-his color got him places where white Americans are scarcely tolerated...
...Herrengroup." Only a few clergymen have dared to denounce church policy. Last week in Cape Town, 45-year-old Pastor Daniel Devos, once a highly regarded member of the synod, addressed a rally in support of a new nonpolitical church of his own. Said Pastor Devos: "One thousand political predikants rule behind the scenes, change cabinets at will, control the church." Both church and government leaders consolidate their power through a secret society, the Breeder-bond-Brotherhood. "Their aim," he added, "is a republic which will suppress all resistance and destroy the freedom of all races except a single...
...years Pastor Howard D. McCalmont's First United Presbyterian congregation has fought a court battle to build a church in a cozy residential district in northwestern Detroit. They were opposed, in the courts, by 15 of the area's 236 residents, who cited residential zoning laws in their support. Last week the Michigan state supreme court ruled that the church could not be built. A 6-1 decision agreed with the complainants' claim that the church would "destroy the residential character of their homes, attract large crowds, create parking problems, noises and interfere with their privacy...
...went to Britain for a year to be assistant to the pastor of St. Patrick's, Soho, a poor, drab parish, half-Italian, half-London Irish, with a sprinkling of Chinese. He is still a loved and legendary figure at St. Patrick's. Whenever he goes to London, he preaches there, and the parishioners eagerly look forward to his visits. Said one last week, hoping for another visit this month, "Things seem very confused. Then you have a talk with Bishop Sheen. Then things clear up. Then they grow confused again...