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...three-times-a-week churchgoer (Presbyterian) and a religious magazine editor, I'm so well inundated with religious topics that it takes a really outstanding report like yours on Baptist Billy Graham [TIME, Oct. 25] to bring forth a comment. It was splendid...
...member churches yielded $1.5 billion in 1953-54, an increase of $136 million over 1952-53. The most generous givers were Seventh-day Adventists, with an average yearly contribution of $173.35 apiece. The next five, in order: Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, $170.39; Church of the Nazarene, $118.33; Orthodox Presbyterian Church, $112.56; Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America, $109.03; Conference of the Evangelical Mennonite Church...
American Heritage. Brubeck's parents were Presbyterian, gave him a mildly religious upbringing, but he developed a searching religious bent of his own. With deep scruples against taking life, when World War II broke out, he did the next best thing to being a conscientious objector. "I resolved never to have a cartridge in my gun if I ever landed at the front," he says. "I wanted to be sure beforehand that I could never kill...
...find out why, and to see what can be done about it, 1,000 ministers and laymen from 250 communities in 30 states met last week in the First Presbyterian Church of Salina, Kans. The delegates represented 20 Protestant denominations; the theme of their meeting was "A United Christian Witness for Rural America...
...Brooks House Association, who refused to be named, last night asserted that Hastie has been pressured by the University administration to withdraw his offers--at least until the arrival in Cambridge of the newly elected Chairman of the Board of Preachers, George A. Buttrick, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City...