Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestantism's doughtiest champions-and one of its sharpest critics -is the owner-editor of the nondenominational Christian Century. For 38 years Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison's Protestant polemics have warmed the pages of his vigorous weekly (present circulation...
He looks like a Roman Catholic priest after Hollywood's heart-from the man-to-man no-nonsense of his manner to the gentle, Celtic cadence of his speech. But South-Ireland-born Chaplain A. Hamilton Nesbitt of New York City's Police Department is a solid Methodist...
With his 4,000-odd Protestant minority on the police force, perennially suspicious ,that their 13,500 Catholic colleagues were getting the breaks in salaries and promotions, Chaplain Nesbitt had something to work with. For his model he took the Catholics' 130-year-old Holy Name Society, which maintains...
Since then, fighting Irishman Nesbitt has proved that Protestant schisms are no insuperable barrier to united Protestant action. He has pushed St. George's original 500 police membership to more than 3,000. Like their Holy Name colleagues, St. George members are required to attend church each Sunday, receive...
Their hopes were high: Protestant church attendance has already doubled since V-J day. Their plans were ambitious: a three-year evangelical program, in which 1,000-odd ministers and lay preachers will be expected to gain 3,000,000 converts.*To rebuild the 500 Protestant churches destroyed by American...