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Delighted to be rid of him at last, the Nationalist government permitted Trevor Huddleston to preach his last major sermon over a national broadcasting hookup, but warned him not to discuss politics. He delivered a strong indictment of the government, and called apartheid "blasphemy" and "refusal of God's plan and purpose." That was not politics, he later told angry government officials, but simple Christianity...
...Members of the Church of Christ are also known as Campbellites, after Thomas Campbell and his son Alexander. In 1809, in Washington, Pa., they rejected Calvinism, formed an association for "the Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things." The Campbellites believe that laymen have the right and duty to preach. Their motto: "Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent." About 80% of Church of Christ membership (1,500,000) is in rural areas...
...regard these developments as dangerous. They advocate-for others-what they call 'neutrality.' By this they mean that each nation should have the weakness which is inevitable when each depends on itself alone. But the Soviet rulers practice, for themselves, something very different from what they thus preach to others. They have forged a vast domain. The Soviet bloc represents an amalgamation of about 900 million people normally constituting more than 20 distinct national groups. [In view of this] the United States does not believe in practicing neutrality. Barring exceptional cases, neutrality today is an obsolete conception...
Like ex-patient Boisen, he was shocked at the casual insensitivity of the clergy who bothered to visit mental patients at all; they would preach on such irrelevant subjects as foreign missions or potentially explosive texts, e.g., "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." But there was more to it than simply giving the patients understanding, says Bruder. "I found in what Boisen called 'the wilderness of the lost' you discovered the needs of people at the ground level, naked both emotionally and physically. It was a whole new field...
...Communist line against rearmament. He was the first of his family to get a driver's license. He became an outspoken apostle of the Yankee square dance, of birth control (said he after the birth of his fourth child: "It is not easy to practice what you preach"), and of the Crown Prince's right to marry as he chooses ("The Crown Prince is like a bird in a cage. If he prefers a love marriage, it should be recognized"). Meanwhile, he also became a recognized authority on the ancient Orient. For such a man, it seemed perfectly...