Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doughnuts in the Kitchen. Soon all Borculo was working side by side at the project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating...
The Christian Century lamented that "the Roman Catholic Church, with its pageantry and color, will have an appeal in television which the Protestant churches lack." The telegenic Catholic Church seemed to have its own problems. In December, worshipers in the New York metropolitan area were warned that watching Mass over...
Brooklyn, which is used to fighting words, had a new one: Melish. The battleground was the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, in fashionable Brooklyn Heights.
¶ Television was also viewed with alarm, by religious leaders. Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, in Christianity and Crisis, declared that the immediate effect of TV would be "a further vulgarization of our culture . . . Much of what is still wholesome in our life will perish under the impact of this new...
The commonest adjustment to a mixed marriage, says Leiffer, is for one or both of the partners to stop taking an interest in church. "Of the 444 men who were involved in a Roman Catholic-Protestant marriage, no no longer had even a nominal connection with their old church and...