Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Graduating from Princeton in 1905, Thomas was ordained in the Presbyterian Ministry from Union Seminary in 1911. While serving as the pastor of a church in East Harlem, he gradually became a socialist, until his political views forced him out of the clergy. But like most other things, he now concedes, "the church has improved since I got out". Yet he remains to this day a profoundly religious man, and admits to grave doubts about ecumenism. "I'm troubled about how far we can go and still call it Christianity. What we really need is more honest conformity between what...
...Rabbi Israel Dresner: "There is a higher law in God's universe and that is God's law. There is a time when man must choose between man's law and God's law." George Docherty, pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, took the floor. "I'm here for three reasons," said he. "One, I think the fundamentals of the Christian church are at stake in this hour. Someone said this is the largest gathering of ministers since the Council of Trent. I'd venture to say it is also...
Tuesday night three white clergymen dined at a Negro restaurant in Selma. One of them was the Rev. James Reeb. Reeb, who was born in Casper, Wyo., was ordained a Presbyterian minister but converted to Unitarianism in 1959. A slight, energetic, hard-working man, father of four children, Reeb worked for four years at All Souls' Church in Washington, D.C., but he found parish work too limiting. "He had a great love for people and their needs," says a colleague, the Rev. William A. Wendt. "He could not have cared less about whether they were going to heaven...
...dillies until he can't dilly any longer; then he dallies," snapped Manhattan Presbyterian Clergyman Charles Leber. "I honestly don't know of one contribution he has made to the school system since he became superintendent," grumbled a member of the board of education. "We've been pleading with him, we've been begging him-we just couldn't get this guy moving," complained another...
About one-fourth of South Caroli na's 800 Methodist churches are withholding contributions to an Interdenominational Cooperation Fund because a fraction of the money goes to the National Council. Recently the Knoxville presbytery formally resolved that the parent Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (the Southern Presbyterians) should withdraw from membership in the council, a motion that may well be seconded by a dozen more presbyteries at this year's General Assembly. Episcopalians in Southern California who belong to the archconservative Society of St. Athanasius have made a number of motions at church financecommittee meetings to withhold funds...