Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not mentioned by Moderator Virgilio Sommani in his list of faiths at whose disposal the Waldensian churches were placed was the Jewish faith. We held regular Friday night and also holiday services in the little Protestant chapel in Cerignola, and sometimes the Waldensian members would come in and watch.
Protestant clergymen took the lead in founding the ivy-league colleges: Harvard (1636), Yale (1701), Princeton (1746), Dartmouth (1769). Between 1830 and 1860 U.S. Methodists founded 34 colleges, U.S. Baptists 21. Clergymen dominated the faculties, often the boards of trustees. By the mid-19th Century, many of these same clergymen...
One of the wonderers was in Hollywood itself. Last week a dark-&-handsome, soft-spoken young Navy lieutenant named Paul Frederic Heard rushed to finish some Navy teaching films so that he could take on a job of Protestant movie production and pressagentry. He would be secretary of the newly...
¶ Setting up a public-relations committee to "encourage" writers to produce work with "the Protestant point of view." (This would probably involve a certain amount of author-subsidizing.)
When asked if the Commission would try to propagate Protestant analogues of Going My Way, etc., Heard answered: That is definitely one of our aims. . . . We will try to find a way to dramatize what the minister calls 'the Christian way of life.' "