Word: preached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congregational Christian Churches girded up their loins and prepared to take a hand in U.S. politics. Their Council for Social Action called on the Churches' 4,000 ministers last week to take the church into politics, preach politics from the pulpit...
Prime mover against this unchristian hoodlumism was a Methodist, Dr. Allen E. Claxton of the Broadway Temple. He organized an interfaith (Christian and Jewish) group, got 90% of Washington Heights Protestant pastors to preach Sunday sermons against antiSemitism, carry on a day-by-day agitation for religious and racial tolerance. Recognizing that anti-Semitism is not wholly a one-sided matter, the rabbis in the group will also preach to their Jewish congregations on tolerance. Children will receive special instruction at Sunday schools and recreation centers...
...them. Then one day he read in the Talmud, "If there be a need for a man, be thou that man," decided he would enter the rabbinate. He left Louisville, went to Johns Hopkins (where an English professor wrote on one of his themes: "Please describe something. You always preach."), then to Cincinnati's University and Hebrew Union College, then to Yale for a doctorate in psychology...
Into the pulpits of the 3,780 parishes of the United Lutheran Church last Sunday stepped 3,780 pastors to preach from the same text: "There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed...
...coached by him and his disciples won nine national championships in ten years. A onetime player himself, Miller concluded that the trouble with most coaches is that they teach the game but ignore the control of the body. Body control became Bill Miller's religion. He resigned to preach his faith full time...