Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crucial Insight. Though liberal-arts education can never be completely Christian, or Christian education wholly liberal, said Princeton Historian E. Harris Harbison, a Presbyterian, the two are really indispensable to each other. "The goal of the liberal arts is to provide hindsight and foresight [in] this universe of things and events; the part of Christian belief is to provide insight, [which] is of crucial significance for living . . . William James remarked . . . 'When we see all things in God and refer all things to Him, we read in common matters superior expressions of meaning . . .' Here is the essence...
...according to Editor Carty: Bill Wade, quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville...
...Admitted five new member churches: the U.S.'s Evangelical Lutheran Church (1,000,000 members), the Burma Baptist Convention (200,000 members), the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (20,000 members), the Christian Reformed Churches in Indonesia (2,300 members) and the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, B.W.I. (12,000 members...
Topping 1,000,000 circulation for the first time with its August 10 issue, Presbyterian Life announced proudly last week that it now reaches the "largest number of Christians assembled in one list since the birth of Jesus." Apace with the resurgence of religion in the U.S., the church-sponsored, slick-paper biweekly in less than ten years has grown into the world's biggest paid-circulation religious magazine and has helped to make sweeping changes in the economics and editorial approach of religious journalism...
Most copies of Presbyterian Life are sold directly to churches, which undertake to sign up members of the congregation at $1 a year (v. $2 for individual mail subscribers), thus can sell advertising space (1956 ad revenue: $402,000) on the basis of audited circulation. The magazine is put out by a ten-man lay staff under onetime Holiday Staffer Robert J. Cadigan, aims at general family readership with sharp picture layouts and easy-to-take text pieces...