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...Ayres, onetime cinema glamor boy, now a gaunt and grizzled chaplain's aide at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, decided that he had found what he had always wanted. The former "Dr. Kildare"* plans to enter a seminary after the Avar, eventually preach from a Congregational pulpit. Said he: "I want to continue this work, God willing...
...protests blew in on the Navy Department. Like Designer Burnham, the protesters were all Protestants. The state of Washington's Council of Churches found the design "sacrilegious ... an utter mockery of the sacredness of worship. . . . Weapons of war might as well be placed on the altar or pulpit as to allow this horrible creation ... to desecrate the sanctuary of worship." The influential Christian Century found it "rather shocking to see that symbol of gentleness and grace" holding a warship, but was thankful that "the figure of Christ does not hold the pivotal position. . . . If He were represented . . . the incongruity...
...been big enough to rank as a parish. It had long dragged out a flickering life as a mission. In 1942 St. Andrew's threatened to flicker out for good. Mr. Edwards, then only a lay reader, decided that he had found his charge. He took over the pulpit at St. Andrew's Chapel...
...Congregational Christian Churches girded up their loins and prepared to take a hand in U.S. politics. Their Council for Social Action called on the Churches' 4,000 ministers last week to take the church into politics, preach politics from the pulpit...
...during the occupation Munk's voice has attacked the Nazis from his pulpit. He has written many a biting pamphlet distributed by the Danish underground. His last defiant gesture before his arrest came a few weeks ago when he flatly refused to obey the Nazi edict to cease prayers for the persecuted Norwegians. Wrote Munk: ". . . I intend to dis obey. . . . Danish clergymen take an oath on the Bible, but not yet to the Foreign Secretary. . . . I feel bound to my Norwegian brothers because they are . . . brothers in the faith. They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn...