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...Preacher Nichols grew up as fast as his church did. He wrote his first sermon when he was twelve ; it was read by a clergyman friend over a Salt Lake City radio station. At 15, he began preaching himself, and kept it up through his four years at Abilene Christian College (one of ten colleges maintained by the Churches of Christ). In 1947, he talked 15 Iowa congregations into sponsoring a radio program, then expanded it to include eight stations in five states...
...Reverend Leslie T. Pennington, Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago, will be preacher for the Baccalaureate Service. The Reverend Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, is chaplain for the event...
...years since, Methodist McConnell has stayed close enough to earth to become the best-known preacher of the "social gospel" in U.S. Protestantism. In By the Way (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $3.50), a chatty autobiography well furnished with preacher stories, the controversial patriarch of U.S. Methodists, now 80, takes a mellow backward look on his long struggle to give his religion a social conscience as well as a theological...
...Britain's 50 million inhabitants, about 3½ million are Roman Catholics. The leaders of that church in Britain have traditionally included many men notable in the arts, public life, or scholarship-of whom Msgr. Ronald Knox, wit, popular author, preacher and Biblical scholar, is a brilliant example...
...Knox was already famous when he sat down, more than twelve years ago, to his work of translation-famous as a preacher, as a scholar, as a writer of detective novels and as a wit, but chiefly famous as a man. In the years before 1914, when the first plays of Somerset Maugham were delighting London with their brilliance, Knox already had a reputation for his wit and his satires against watery faith and confused thought...