Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The question of religion in films . . . can hardly be solved by future appearances of Mr. Crosby in varied religious guises; nor . . .by. . . a $1,000,000 committee representing the "Protestant point of view" [TIME, Jan. 21].
The ambiguous nature of modern Protestant thought was well illustrated last week in a pronouncement from the Federal Council of Churches on the subject of having babies. In a statement called "Religion and the Birthrate" the Federal Council plumped cautiously for planned parenthood, sought more babies and yet fewer. The...
Protestant Weakness No. 1. In last week's Christian Century, John Paul Williams, professor of religious literature and history at Mt. Holyoke, pointed to this clerical abdication as the No. 1 weakness of Protestantism. Wrote Teacher Williams...
¶ "This dodging of educational responsibility on the part of Protestant clergymen has had alarming results. . . . Less than half the Protestant children in the United States are even enrolled in religious schools. And the number is declining. . . .
¶ "Protestant pastors must begin to put as much thought and energy into Protestant education as Catholic pastors put into Catholic education-or yield religious primacy in America."