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...Christians, the ordination of women was still a long and revolutionary way from the admonishment of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians: "Let your women keep silence in the churches" (I Corinthians 14:34). At least one of the antifeminist fears-the thought of a pregnant woman in a pulpit-was no immediate prospect. All three ministeresses are unmarried...
...might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call to wander, where a stern ramrod reverend and a kindly rolypoly one share the same pulpit, where Anthony Perkins, as a bedeviled wanderer's son, is afeared to marry his sweetheart, where people dart out of portable outhouses, or go in for bucolic frisks and nocturnal rituals, or pay such compliments as: "Cow has more but you are nicer...
...book on the problems of faith and ethics. To his thousands of German followers, the best news of all was that he plans to resume his lectures at Munich University when the next term begins in May, and that this spring he will once again mount the pulpit of Munich's Ludwigskirche to preach to his perennial audience of Roman Catholic intellectuals, society bluestockings, young people, and aging playboys who come to ogle the pretty girls-said to be found in greater numbers at a Guardini sermon than at a Fasching party...
...During the '30s," said Odiorne, "the unions as advocates of 'more' for the underdog could attract the support of independent opinion-makers in pulpit and college classroom. This independent thinker today finds himself far less challenged by the plight of the simple workman, who is often much better paid than he is for teaching college English." The loss of support means the erosion of the "intellectual respectability" of the union movement. It is a loss that labor can ill afford, for then the "union movement becomes a grand association of experts in propaganda and in lobbying...
Ernest Gordon, Dean of the Princeton Chapel, is still upholding the invitation to King. Supported by President Robert F. Goheen, Gordon defended his right as dean to have a "free pulpit" and to invite whomever he pleased to speak. Gordon also denied that King was a revolutionary, and cited him instead as having "prevented a revolution from taking place." He called King's views "thoroughly Christian...