Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Russians today are not reminded that Lenin in 1922 permitted a number of prelates of the Russian Orthodox Church to form a new "Living Church," and to preach modernist, Marxian, non-super-natural doctrines while wearing the flowing robes and black boxlike mitres of the bishops of old Holy Russia. Both the Living Church and the Orthodox Church have existed since then at the pleasure of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. The Government's policy has been to tolerate religion so long as there were people who wanted it, and at the same time to encourage the work...
...Germany, Italy, Russia, schools are ruthlessly used by dictators to preach their own doctrines. The result is so effective that many an unconvinced parent dare not speak his opinions in his own home for fear that an overconvinced child may denounce him to the authorities. Last week a Purdue University professor, painstaking, blond Dr. Herman H. Remmers, gave a spectacular scientific demonstration of how effective propaganda might be made in U. S. schools...
Niemoller on Nazis. Whether or not it was "treason" for Pastor Niemoller to preach, write and talk as he has against the Nazi system, his published sermons* are undoubtedly among the most controversial ever preached. In Germany the Nazis claim to object only to what they call "Negative Christianity," claim to approve "Positive Christianity" (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Pastor Niemoller, in perhaps his most controversial sermon, boldly accused the Nazis of taking in this matter today exactly the line the Jews took when Christ was alive...
...week there arrived in Manhattan a great Anglican evangelical, Rt. Rev. Joseph Wellington Hunkin, 50, Lord Bishop of Truro, scheduled to be chief speaker at the society's 75th anniversary meeting in Philadelphia this week. An able pulpit orator, Dr. Hunkin will spend a month in the U.S., preach in Episcopal churches and seminaries in Detroit, Boston, Washington, Richmond...
...since to dispel such feelings is part of his job. Nevertheless, in Boston last week a survey was released which indicated that inner inadequacy is a prime characteristic of churchgoers-or at least of New England Protestant churchgoers. For five years, students of Dr. Harold Washington Ruopp, professor of preaching at Boston University School of Theology, asked churchfolk around Boston: What is the outstanding question that you face in your thinking and, living? Professor Ruopp's tabulation of nearly 5,000 replies was published last week in the Boston Transcript religious column of Dr. Albert Charles ("Dieff") Dieffenbach...