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...statement was the nub of a survey, "Woman's Status in Protestant Churches," published last week by the Federal Council of Churches. It was based on a questionnaire sent to 5,380 active churchwomen of eight denominations (Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, United Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Women in the Church | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...must an omnipotent God be cajoled by prayer?" someone else shouted. "Prayer is the duty owed by creature to Creator," came the answer. The priests had to stand up and answer atheistic, Mohammedan, Presbyterian, and Jehovah's Witness heckling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heckled Priests | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...titleholder plans to complete his undergraduate career in three years and take his M.A. in classical languages the next winter. He expects to follow his father, Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, editor of the religious monthly "Revelation," and author of five books, in the ministry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '44 Child Prodigy Captures Laurels | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

...Postponed the concordat proposed in 1937 to unite the Episcopalian and Presbyterian Churches. Nevertheless, for the first time at a General Convention, the Episcopalians held a joint mass meeting with Presbyterians. Cried the Presbyterians' Moderator, Dr. William Lindsay Young (a fraternal delegate at the convention): "My earnest prayer tonight is that I may live to stand before you some time and address, not your church, not my church, but our church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopal Archbishop? | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Ulster village of Donaghreagh in some sweet pre-Hitlerian period, the plot poses the daughter of a greengrocer with the question of choosing between a young Presbyterian minister and a would-be competitor of her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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