Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The President also wrote to Dr. George A. Buttrick of the Federal Council of Churches and Rabbi Cyrus Adler of the Jewish Theological Seminary: ". . . It would give me great satisfaction if you would, from time to time, come to Washington to discuss the problems which all of us have on...
...Protestantism is gaining members. It is collecting more money from them, too, and the average contribution for the collection plate is up. Last fortnight Everyone, Presbyterian quarterly, published the United Stewardship Council statistics for 1945.† Reports from 18 top Protestant denominations showed a net membership gain over 1944: 563,866 (2.2%); increase in gifts: $62,997,968 (14.9%); increase in per capita contributions...
Marguerite Stihlé, timid, toothless mother of 14 children: "I'm a Protestant . . . my husband got sick. ... I asked the church for help but they put me off. One day they even asked me for a contribution. I said 'To hell with them' and we all joined...
The American Gomorrah, half-deserted by winter hedonists, was invaded last week by 8,000 teetotaling "messengers." Luxury hotels on the Miami bay-front were packed for the Southern Baptist Convention. They represented the second largest† U.S. Protestant group (5,668,000 members). Their 100th anniversary meeting, postponed by...
Unmindful of Appomattox, the Baptists have been content to remain divided, because: 1) Southern Baptists are generally more Calvinist-i.e., hard-shelled-than the Northern variety; 2) basic Baptist policy abhors organization and church discipline. Baptists will cautiously unite to form a "conference," but not a Church. "Messengers" rather...