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Word: presbyterian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GORDON W. MATTICE First Presbyterian Church Jamaica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...past ten years, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin, Presbyterian pastor of Cincinnati's St. Barnabas Church, has refused to pay all of his federal income tax -since 1955 he has not even filed a return. His defense: Christian principle. As a pacifist, he declines to contribute to armaments by paying taxes. Last week the feds came for Non-Taxpayer McCrackin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God & Taxes | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Theodore Alexander Gill has the lanky, bespectacled good looks that go with Hollywood's idea of a successful minister -but not the sweet disposition. As managing editor for the past two years of the nondenominational Christian Century, prickly Presbyterian Gill has told off churchmen, politicians and the public with a pungency rarely equaled in U.S. religious journalism. Last week Gill announced that he was leaving the Century to head a seminary himself-San Francisco Theological (enrollment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prickly Presbyterian | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...York City. In his book-cluttered little cubicle in the Christian Century's ancient Chicago office, Editor Gill. 38. last week explained why he had decided to leave journalism for another job: "Part of the reason is my particular distortion of the Calvinistic conscience, or at least my Presbyterian version of it. Perhaps it is the feeling that I am too fascinated and excited by this whole business of observing, watching and commenting from the outside. Maybe, in other words. I have some guilt feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prickly Presbyterian | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...talk more sense to the South on the subject of race relations than the South's own moderates. One of them, South Carolina's James McBride Dabbs, a 62-year-old scholar, essayist and Presbyterian elder, makes a forthright appeal to reason in this first book. Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Southerner's Plea | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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