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Delegates were mindful of the recent fracas in Unitarian ranks over the ousting of Pastor Stephen Fritchman for following the Communist line too closely in his editing of the monthly Christian Register (TIME, May 26). There had also been critical murmurs from "theist" Unitarians against the ultra-humanist views of President Frederick May Eliot's administration. But the agenda proved too crowded for these controversies. Indeed, there was too much to say and too little time in which to say it. Once as many as five delegates contended for the microphone...
Keynote of the conference was unity-and its opposite. One young pastor reported that new ministers were increasingly hard to get for a church "forever racked with internal wrangling." The conference's moderator, portly Dr. Winfred Overholser, warned: "We, as Unitarian religious liberals, have always prided ourselves on our right to our own views and on the right to follow the dictates of our own consciences; but there have been indications in some circles in recent months that . . . dissidence ... is well on its way to becoming a fetish...
...tobacco merchant, Hermann attended Pastor Niemöller's Evangelical Church, spent most of the war years in school. After being inducted into an antiaircraft unit with his teachers and entire class, he decided that he was "willing not to fight for Hitler" and soon deserted. Hermann, who thinks the trouble with his countrymen is that they have been educated in "servile obedience," hopes to bring back some of the Schenectady spirit with...
Burr Under His Saddle. When Hollywood called Louis Evans in 1941, he was pastor of the steel-rich, conservative Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh. At first, the un-Presbyterian prospect of sports jackets and starlets did not attract him. "I said no at first when their call came," he said. "But later I realized it would be a burr under my saddle and that Hollywood would be one of the finest recruiting grounds in America. Also, I wanted to get my teeth into something...
Questions & Cross Reference. In Hollywood, 50-year-old Pastor Evans uses the same earnest, blunt sincerity that took him through successful pastorates at Wilmington, Calif., Pomona, Calif, and Pittsburgh. A forceful, straight-from-the-shoulder pulpit speaker, he still likes to pose direct questions to his congregations. Sample sermon title: "Honestly Now, Shall I Drink?" On an average Sunday, some 4,000 Hollywoodians turn out to hear what he will answer to such questions. After preaching three services each Sunday, Dr. Evans usually makes at least three other full-fledged addresses during the week. Explains one Evans admirer: "He doesn...