Word: presbyterian
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Every year the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 members) elects a Moderator-a largely honorary but distinctly honorific post. In Minneapolis last week the church's 157th annual assembly chose tall, grey, bespectacled William Blakeman Lampe, pastor of St. Louis' big (1,500 members) West Presbyterian Church...
...Lampe describes himself as "the common garden variety Presbyterian preacher," and on most issues is a middle-of-the-roader. But after his election (on the second ballot), he made it clear that he saw eye to eye with his predecessor. Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, when it came to Roman Catholics in politics. "We are not fighting the Roman Catholics," said he, "but we have always fought for our liberties, and we will continue...
...these sentiments had been expressed by some left-wing religious leader like Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, no one would have been much surprised. But they happened to be part of a committee report to the Toronto and Kingston Synod of the notably conservative Presbyterian Church in Canada. The committee took pains to make its sentiments clear...
Affable, handsome Henry Sloane Coffin, ordained in the Presbyterian Church at the age of 23, began his ministry humbly -in a room over a Bronx fish market. Last week he ended 19 years as president of one of Protestantism's most outstanding theological schools, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Coffin had reached Union's retirement age (68) and was making way for Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Union's professor of systematic theology (TIME...
These pictures of John Benjamin ("J.B.") Powell, onetime editor of the Shanghai China Weekly Review, show him 1) last week at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital and 2) when he returned on the Gripsholm after spending the winter of 1942 in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 7, 1942). He lost part of both feet from gangrene acquired by squatting for hours on the cold prison floor. Surgeons first tried tiny grafts of skin, later had to resort to large pieces of flesh from Powell's thigh. Since January, wearing two shoes on each foot (cost $212), Powell...