Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shared a London flat at the time. Walter Lippmann is "rich" enough to have bought a commodious town house on Manhattan's East 61st St.-ED. Birth Control's Department Sirs: The inclusion, in the March 30 issue, of your article "Protestant Birth Control" under the heading Religion was perhaps necessitated by the lack of a more suitable column. It should be realized, however, that Birth Control, whether moral or immoral, is a social question, an economic question, even a political question, to a greater extent than a religious...
Following the opening devotional service in Andover Chapel at 2.30 o'clock by Professor W. L. Sperry, dean of the School, the Dudleian Lecture on Bevealed Religion on the subject "Priesthood in the Modern World" will be given by Baillie, Roosevelt Professor of Systematic Theology in the Union Theological Seminary. He will be followed by Pitirim Sorokin, professor of Sociology, in an address of "Present Religious Conditions in Rusia". After a tea at 4.30 o'clock the Reverend Mr. E. C. Davis of Concord, New Hampshire will conduct a service in Divinity Chapel...
...Years of the Community Church" at the meeting of the alumni in Divinity Chapel at 10.30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The luncheon will be served at 1 o'clock in the Farrar Room. At 3 o'clock in Andover Chapel, Professor Bixler, head of the Department of Religion, Smith College, will deliver the Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man on the subject "Immortality and the Present Mood". A service in Divinity Chapel will be conducted at 5.30 o'clock by the Reverend Mr. W. S. Jones of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The final assembly of the alumni will...
...these protesting young men, if we understand them, are not objecting to religion as such, however much they may be questioning some of its current manifestations. They do seem to objects however, to the assumption that God is Nordic, Protestant, capitalistic, and pro-Ally. And they do not believe that the universities have the right to use the millions they can so easily command for the uncritical propagation of accepted ideas and beliefs. The students seem to be doing honest and genuine thinking, and in their thought we see far more of hope both for the universities...
...during the past few years some of our prominent religious leaders have professed repentance, and have declared that they will be on the side of peace next time even when the drums beat. If their professions mean anything, they ought to fight every attempt to associate religion and war, even in retrospect. Let us build memorials, if we must, to our war dead, and let them express our grief at our folly and wickedness in sending these young men to death; but let us not help prepare another war by sanctifying the last one through associating its losses and sacrifices...