Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Federal Council of Churches, which last week differed from Winston Churchill on the drift of world affairs (see INTERNATIONAL), is the biggest single body of U.S. religious opinion. Its 400 delegates are the nominal spokesmen for some 27,000,000 members of 22 Protestant and three Orthodox church groups...
With some $350,000 a year, the Council finances commissions and publications on such matters as evangelism, race relations, radio, labor relations, "international justice & good will," etc. The Council itself spends no money on relief or missions, but it underwrites the budgets of several interdenominational religious agencies which do. Among...
The third God-seeker was Actor Nick Romney, who was married to "sultry, sulky" Melita. Nick read the New Testament for the first time when he was given the role of a Protestant clergyman in a play. "This is a very interesting book, Melita," Nick said. "I must get a...
Last week Stanley I. Stuber, press-relations man for the Northern Baptist Convention, echoing widespread U.S. Protestant irritation, asked why. Wrote he, to the New York Times:
To give their aid and counsel, they finished the spadework for the first full-dress assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held in 1948. Probable site: Holland or Denmark. Purpose: to mobilize the influence of the world's Protestant and Orthodox churches as a prime mover...