Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away at the Russian Church for twelve long years. Hence outside the Soviet Union, and even inside, there has been a tendency to forget that Communism has not wiped out the Church, that many of its priests have adapted themselves to Soviet conditions with such dexterity that they now preach Christ was the first...
There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but these things have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come...
...Tabernacles"; by Dr. Straton the "Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." This reverend miss once declared: "If I were a man, I'd never marry a woman preacher. They declaim too much." But two years ago a shoe salesman named Wilbur Eugene Langkop heard Evangelist Utley preach in Quincy, 111., drove her to Hannibal, Mo., followed her thereafter on the preaching tours she makes in the Midwest, since she has no permanent pastorate. Ignoring her advice, Salesman Langkop last week plighted his troth to the Terror of the Tabernacles in Manhattan's famed Episcopal Little Church...
...Universalist Church in Lansing. Mich, two Sundays ago, Rev. Henry Clay Ledyard preached calmly, quietly in this vein to a congregation which had come to hear his valedictory sermon on Why I Am Not a Christian. Universalist Ledyard, 57, had held the Lansing pulpit since 1935, had espoused the cause of the Automobile Workers last spring,* had been the one Lansing preacher who accepted their invitation to preach in the Reo factory during their sitdown. Mr. Ledyard's congregation rebelled. Resigning as of last week, the young-looking minister made ready to become organization director of the Quarry Workers...
Among numerous U. S. ministers who preach by radio, Methodist Dr. William Leroy ("Bill") Stidger of Boston is notable, if only because he is a commercial broadcaster. Five days a week, on a New England network, he delivers a four-minute talk on a devotional program which plugs Fleischmann's Yeast. In common with many of his colleagues, Dr. Stidger believes that radio is valuable to religion. This week he did something practical about it. He instituted a course in radio preaching at Boston University School of Theology, where he is professor of homiletics...