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...Toronto and Kingston Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Canada need not apologize for its resolution admitting that there is a powerful streak of spiritual power in Communism [TIME, May 28]. If the Russian people were not so deeply religious, Communism could not have succeeded. This war ought to illustrate to the most gullible that our conception of Christianity with its repetition of wars is neither Christian nor lasting and cannot hope to please the Lord who preached brotherhood and love...
Accept or Get Out? Ordained a Baptist, Fosdick showed his opinion of denominationalism by becoming (in 1919) the associate minister of Manhattan's wealthy First Presbyterian Church. There he touched off a controversy between Modernists and Fundamentalists which made Page-One news and rocked U.S. Protestantism to its foundations. One Sunday morning in 1922, Fosdick delivered a blistering sermon, in which he said: "Just now, the Fundamentalists are giving us one of the worst exhibitions of bitter intolerance that the churches of this country have ever seen." He proceeded to state his own Modernist position by questioning the Virgin...
Every year the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 members) elects a Moderator-a largely honorary but distinctly honorific post. In Minneapolis last week the church's 157th annual assembly chose tall, grey, bespectacled William Blakeman Lampe, pastor of St. Louis' big (1,500 members) West Presbyterian Church...
...Lampe describes himself as "the common garden variety Presbyterian preacher," and on most issues is a middle-of-the-roader. But after his election (on the second ballot), he made it clear that he saw eye to eye with his predecessor. Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, when it came to Roman Catholics in politics. "We are not fighting the Roman Catholics," said he, "but we have always fought for our liberties, and we will continue...
Affable, handsome Henry Sloane Coffin, ordained in the Presbyterian Church at the age of 23, began his ministry humbly -in a room over a Bronx fish market. Last week he ended 19 years as president of one of Protestantism's most outstanding theological schools, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Coffin had reached Union's retirement age (68) and was making way for Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Union's professor of systematic theology (TIME...