Word: pastors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vote of 227 to 89, the congregation of the Community Church of Miami Shores, Fla. last week decided not to fire its pastor, 37-year-old Rev. Donald Douds. But that did not necessarily settle the matter. Said one prominent trustee: "I believe personally the church is ruined...
Symphonie Pastorale. A modulated but powerful French drama about a blind girl who innocently disrupts a pastor's family; with Michele Morgan (TIME...
...Willis P. Miller, 28, pastor of the Disciples of Christ First Christian Church at Lynn, Mass., shared his pulpit with a new "assistant"-a ventriloquist's dummy named Victor who interrupts his sermons and Bible stories with questions, and, occasionally, quips...
Declaring that "the future of the Christian cause depends on the mobilization of laymen," the committee decided on a secretariat to stir up the laity. Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller would travel to Australia in the fall; Dr. Marc Boegner, president of the French Protestant Federation, would bring the gospel to South America; Norway's Bishop Berggrav would go to East Asia...
...search of religious training for their children, more & more U.S. Protestants have been turning to their parochial schools. Last week, at a meeting of the International Council of Religious Education in Columbus, Ohio, Evangelical Lutheran Pastor Clarence Peters of St. Louis submitted some statistics to prove the point. Enrollment in parochial schools supported by three Lutheran groups, Mennonites and Seventh-Day Adventists reached 133,366 in 1947, an increase of nearly 40% over...