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Answer to a Prayer. A few months later Billy was ordained a minister by the St. Johns Baptist Association of Northern Florida. He went on to preach "at every cowpath and wagon track in Florida." gained a strong voice, expanded confidence and got a scholarship to Wheaton College near Chicago. There he collected an A.B. in anthropology, an unusual major for a man who still rejects the theory of evolution...
Moslems practice what many Christians merely preach: "The priesthood of all believers," as the primitive church called it. All adult Moslems of sound mind may perform any religious function. This Asad found a great advantage. "The absence of all priesthood, clergy, and even of an organized 'church' makes every Moslem feel that he is truly sharing in, and not merely attending, a common act of worship...
Buttrick will preach the series in order to give the program a continuity it has lacked in past years. Life magazine featured Buttrick, now pastor of the Madison Ave. Presbyterian Church in New York and professor of Homiletics at Union Seminary, as one of the ten greatest preachers in the country...
Newly elected Chairman of the Board of Preachers George A. Buttrick will preach almost all of the sermons during the term. The only visitors scheduled at present are Paul J. Tillich, University Professor of Christianity; Reinhold Niebuhy, dean of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary; and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, of the Washington, D.C., area of the Methodist Church...
Lovett explained that he and the other scheduled speakers were happy to cancel their engagements in favor of the Buttrick series. Lovett, as a member of the Board of Preachers, has previously appeared at Memorial Church twice a year. He will still preach this fall. According to Pusey, Dun agreed that the proposed pre-Lenten series by Buttrack was well worth the change in plan...