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Head-Hunters & Hospitals. Everywhere he went, said Dr. Van Dusen, the Christian church was "the one resourceful, untiring, dauntless ministrant to human need-human need of all kinds." The old-fashioned picture of the missionary as a "well-intentioned but rather commonplace preacher, a Bible in one hand and an umbrella in the other, standing under a palm tree exhorting half-naked savages to discard their heathen ways" is as out of date as the daguerreotype. The typical Christian mission today is a center of three or four buildings-a hospital, a school, a church-from which a team...
Death of a Preacher...
TIME's Feb. 2 story of the death of the North Korean preacher due to manhandling by U.S. service personnel undoubtedly is shocking to many Americans. However, it confirms my observation during a reserve-recall tour in Japan and Korea: as fast as the diplomats make friends for us in that part of the world, many service personnel, with their cocky, bullying and overbearing mannerisms, lose these friends for us. How long will this careless attitude of some of the troops be tolerated by the top brass...
...flery white-haired preacher turned the Center into a school to teach his dogma. He "carried his message to the people" in talks on the Boston Common and in books. When he ignored Archbishop Cushing's order to be silent in 1949, he was deprived of his priestly functions and expelled from the Jesuit Society, and St. Benedict's was placed under interdict...
...hear a unique kind of promotion talk. The speaker marshaled his facts with the assurance of a man describing an appealing new bond issue, but he was, in fact, a Christian minister: the Rev. Roy A. Burkhart, pastor of Columbus, Ohio's First Community Church. The organization that Preacher Burkhart was selling is called World Neighbors, Inc. It is a bold attempt to fight Communism in the world's underdeveloped areas with a mixture of technical enterprise and Christianity by example. To the men gathered to hear about it in Pittsburgh (including U.S. Steel's President Clifford...