Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At its triennial convention nine years ago the Protestant Episcopal Church appointed a Commission on Marriage & Divorce to whittle down its Canon 41, which stoutly enjoined Episcopal pastors from solemnizing the marriages of divorced persons. Under the chairmanship of Michigan's grey and liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission...
At a single sitting one morning last week the new British Cabinet of beak-nosed, decisive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resolved that the way to end 17 years of bickering and battle between Jews and Arabs in Palestine is to carve them up into separate countries. Protestant and Catholic Irish...
Biggest churches are the Roman Catholic (20,831,139), Baptist (10,332,005), Methodist (9,109,359), Lutheran (4,589,660). Biggest Protestant gains were registered by the Baptists (140,308) and the Reformed Church (81,958). The Church of Christ, Scientist (whose Founder Mary Baker Eddy frowned upon efforts...
"People do not attend church in the summer months," deplored the Protestant Episcopal Chronicle last week, echoing many another earnest denominational organ. "This seasonal lull seems for the present, at least, to defy solution." To the problem of hot weather shirking, two ministers last week reported two original solutions.
Interviewed by newshawks in his office at the Winterhalter School, Janitor Denhardt calmly displayed his two caps (one with a special officer's badge for directing traffic), a tin lunch bucket, a neat list of his day's duties beginning "Faucets to be repaired," a pile of English...