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...civilized. The prisoners were not beaten or tortured by their Japanese guards. But there was never enough food-Gilkey lost 45 Ibs. during the ordeal-and prison life was dominated by tensions wrought by both boredom and fear. Living space was at a premium in the compound, a former Presbyterian mission. In the dormitories, chalk lines were drawn on the floor, carefully delimiting the area each man had for his bed and few possessions. Privacy was almost nonexistent...
Back from the Abyss. Dialogue has opened its pages to criticism from nonbelievers. In the first issue, Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown politely suggested that Mormons seem more interested in conversion than in genuine dialogue with other Christians, while Roman Catholic Mario S. De Pillis argued that Mormon histories of their church have been less than thorough in explaining its origins. In the 145-page second issue, published this month, Political Science Professor Louis Midgley of Brigham Young University presents a surprisingly sympathetic Mormon criticism of the late Paul Tillich's vision of a nonpersonal God. In another article...
...Dylan. Such was the thrust of the North American Council of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, which met last January in Atlantic City. Its report argued that "the knowledge explosion, man's seeming self-sufficiency, the 'God is Dead' theology, do not make obsolete the concept of God as Holy Spirit. Rather they reinforce the concept, making it intensely relevant today to Christian witness." The Holy Spirit, in fact, was seen as manifesting himself in such unexpected areas as the increasing number of labor disputes settled by arbitration and even through such folk singers...
When he retired in 1962 as pastor of Manhattan's modish, 157-year-old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell found a fitting maxim for the occasion, a line from an old temperance song that admonished, "Have courage, my boy, to say no." It was high time, he said, for an old preacher to go dry fly-fishing in the streams of his native Prince Edward Island. Last week, at 73, Bonnell unexpectedly turned no into yes and accepted the presidency of Manhattan's little interdenominational New York Theological Seminary (enrollment: 180). For the occasion...
Died. Arthur Bernard Langlie, 65, Republican politician and publisher, son of a grocer, who rose on the wave of a Seattle reform movement to become the only man to serve three terms as Governor of Washington State (1941-45, 1949-57), bringing parsimony and Presbyterian morality to the office, but lost a 1956 Senate race, retired from politics to a job as president and later chairman of McCall Corp.; of leukemia and a heart ailment; in Seattle...