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...wives involved in such marriages ... 60 claimed no church affiliation and 91 had not attended church for a year." Usually it is the husband who sacrifices his religion on the altar of marital concord. Typical, reports Leiffer, is an interview with a housewife who had been a Presbyterian and had married a Roman Catholic...
Grab-Bag Families. The statement of one urban housewife reflects the city's blurring of denominational lines: "'My first change was from the Catholic church to an Episcopal . . . because there was no Catholic church in the community . . . My husband was formerly Presbyterian. When we moved to M we wanted to go to some church and we simply started walking down the street till we came to one. It turned out to be the Lutheran church. We ... finally joined and we like it very much . . . Our children have been baptized in the Lutheran church...
...went back to Duke for a B.D., earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Yale soon after joining the Divinity School faculty. From 1944 to 1948 Congregationalist Pope edited the magazine Social Action, and lectured at Manhattan's Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations. He arbitrated labor disputes, helped reorganize New Haven's Labor College, and grew to be well-known for his unflagging opposition to Communism in labor unions. His appointment by the Yale Corporation insured that the Divinity School would continue to emphasize what Pope himself calls the "study of society as it is, in relation to what...
University near Peiping, he had heard that in spite of Communist occupation all classes were maintaining their regular schedules. Dr. Lloyd S. Ruland, China secretary for the Northern Presbyterians, reported Communist soldiers not only attending Presbyterian missionaries' lectures, but also expressing surprise that Christianity teaches brotherly love and the brotherhood of man. But missionary leaders are well aware of what is likely to happen to such tolerant policies when the Communists have their military victory behind them. Said Dr. Ballou on the subject last week: "I've got more hope than I've got faith...