Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick was born in the windswept town of Winder (rhymes with binder) in the rolling, blood-red Georgia hills 52 miles northeast of Atlanta. With twelve brothers & sisters, he grew up in a stern, religious home. Father was a Presbyterian, mother a Methodist, and the full text of the Bible had been read aloud in the home twice before Dick was 13. Justice was dealt with a peachtree switch and a leather strap, and Dick still remembers the time his mother whipped him "until the blood came...
...swelling chorus of critics, the definitions have a hollow sound. Last week, in an eloquent little book called Faith and Education (Abingdon-Cokesbury, $2), one of Manhattan's leading Protestant clergymen told why. The Rev. George A. Buttrick. longtime (25 years) pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes that modern education is nothing more than one gigantic evasion...
...Presbyterian James H. Robinson, 45 and a Negro, knows the taste of race prejudice. A Tennessee boy who went to college in Pennsylvania, he came near being lynched years ago when he went back to Tennessee and preached about civil rights. As a minister, he has known the "utter humiliation" of standing in line at a joint communion service, while white clergymen invented some kind of excuse to avoid marching with...
...when the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions asked him to take a leave of absence from his Harlem pulpit last year and tour Europe and Asia as an ambassador-at-large, Pastor Robinson accepted. He had something to say about his country and its churches. In interviews since he got back, and in a series of articles ending in this week's Presbyterian Life, Robinson tells how it went...
...years Pastor Howard D. McCalmont's First United Presbyterian congregation has fought a court battle to build a church in a cozy residential district in northwestern Detroit. They were opposed, in the courts, by 15 of the area's 236 residents, who cited residential zoning laws in their support. Last week the Michigan state supreme court ruled that the church could not be built. A 6-1 decision agreed with the complainants' claim that the church would "destroy the residential character of their homes, attract large crowds, create parking problems, noises and interfere with their privacy...