Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A blunt and candid American whose size and manner might suggest a foot ball coach last week won election as general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the unity-seeking organization to which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of...
Organization Man. A onetime Prince ton football letterman, St. Louis-born Gene Blake takes pride in being "an organization man" who sees administrative detail not as housekeeping but as a means of achieving the church's mission. Though he lacks Visser 't Hooft's skill in languages...
Fray hopes his committee, which includes Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant clergymen, will act as a "catalytic agent" for local groups to organize discussions about the war. Members of the committee recently helped organize such a debate in Newton, sponsored by the town's mayor. The superintendent of Newton schools mediated...
The system has not only succeeded in making divorce unpleasant, complicated and expensive; it has been woefully ineffective in its original aim of holding down divorce and protecting society from the problems that breakups produce. Roughly 400,000 U.S. couples are being divorced each year. About 40% of them are...
That is a far cry from Christ's unequivocal condemnation of the Mosaic right of Jewish husbands to banish their wives at will: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Still, it is hardly a surprise. The bonds of Christian matrimony have been slowly loosening...