Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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February 5: Dwight D. Eisenhower, new Preacher to the University, arrives by bubble-domed helicopter to deliver first sermon...
...began, but in 1640 Dissenter Thomas Goodwin, later chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, was holding regular services. It was not until 1873 that it began to attract its biggest audiences. To hear the "pulpit genius," Dr. Joseph Parker, actors, authors, artists and bohemians pressed into City Temple alongside primmer Victorians. Preacher Parker often rewarded them with a shocker; when, during the Turkish-Armenian hostilities, he thundered. "I say God damn the Sultan!'', the newspapers headlined: DR. PARKER LETS HIMSELF...
Perhaps the temple's greatest preacher, Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, 65, retired last week after 24 years of urging that religion should work in alliance with medicine and psychiatry. Under Dr. Weatherhead the church kept a staff of ten psychiatrists ("Good religion is never bad psychology, and good psychology is never bad religion...
...Return to Orthodoxy." Weather-head's successor, Dr. Leonard Griffith. 40, last week sounded a new and sterner note. Lancashire-born Preacher Griffith was taken to Canada by his opera-singer parents when he was eight, joined the ministry 15 years ago, served Ottawa's fashionable United Church for the past eleven years. He accepts the Bible as divinely inspired, is not a whit interested in psychiatry. In a church whose tradition is liberal, he is perhaps the true nonconformist: a conservative...
...some of its rowdiest moments. Some memorably colorful but questionable leaders appeared -and in a denomination without central authority, where each church has complete local autonomy, no one could say whether or not they spoke for Southern Baptism. There was, for instance, J. Frank Norris, a Fort Worth Baptist preacher ("the Texas tornado"), who killed a political foe by shooting him four times in the belly, was acquitted on "self-defense." H. L. Mencken's picture, done with his usual exaggerated gusto, was taken as real by many readers: "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent . . . Every...