Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SETTING OF YOUR ARTICLE ON OXFORD GROUP SOMEWHAT IRRELEVANT. WHEN ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY SAYS OXFORD GROUP IS DOING WHAT CHURCH OF CHRIST EXISTS EVERYWHERE TO DO, WHEN PRIMATE DANISH STATE CHURCH, THOUSANDS OF CHURCHMEN OF PRINCIPAL DENOMINATIONS ARE IN OXFORD GROUP, SUCH WORDS AS ''CULT" AND "NEW RELIGION" SEEM INVALID. TIME DOES NOT WANT TO HOLD UP IN THE U. S. THE SPIRITUAL RECOVERY OTHER NATIONS ARE FINDING THROUGH THIS MOVEMENT-A REBIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FOR THE ORDINARY...
Population centre of the homely, zealous, intensely personal religion founded by John Wesley is, according to Methodist statistics, Columbus, Ohio. Last week in the Columbus Public Auditorium gathered 616 delegates to the 32nd Quadrennial Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. These bishops, ministers and laymen were to be in session for at least three weeks, threshing the accumulated problems of four years. Aware of the deep eco nomic differences among Methodists, the church press had been anxiously predicting a "Battle of Columbus." Battle was joined last week with a few popping squibs...
...American Religious Bodies. They were based on a survey of 1,000 Congregational & Christian Churches made by a Commission on Church Attendance headed by that famed and pious statistician, Roger Ward Babson. Bullish on U. S. domestic economy, Statistician Babson is decidedly bearish on the state of U. S. religion...
...really all about." 2) Jiddu Krishnamurti has yet to make a clean break with the fluid tenets of the Theosophical Society which, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, aimed to form "a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity." encourage the study of comparative religion and philosophy, investigate "the unexplained laws of nature [including reincarnation] and the powers latent in man." 3) Strictly, the land on which Krishnamurti spoke was held until 1929 by an affiliate of the Society, is now held by a nominal corporation of three Krishnamurti associates. 4) "Huts" are what Krishnamurti calls...
...Until a religion grows up, it is a cult. Buchmanism is about 20 years old, a mere infant in the range of religious history. It still rallies around one man and its methods are still highly unorthodox. For some reason, the Old World has so far been kinder than the New to the cultists of the Oxford Group. On the heels of the Ollerup meeting, a European author with a respectable following will publish next week the Group's first big literary apologia. Having tried smart fiction (Evensong), pacifism (Cry Havoc!) and horticulture (Down The Garden Path), elegant British...