Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Religion...
...most things lovely but unsubstantial, the annual Wellesley Junior Show is short-lived. It comes in a night and is gone in another. To see it is, if not quite pure pleasure (though it borders around 70%), something everyone should go through. You shouldn't knock someone else's religion, unless you've attended a service...
...time when novelty in religion is becoming the new orthodoxy, the good father is trying hard to be just plain pop. A onetime atheist, he was ordained in 1955, won quick notoriety and ecclesiastical disapproval by hearing "informal" confessions in bars and writing plays peppered with cuss words. He maintains that "you've got to begin with people where they are" and feels that a bar stool can be an effective pulpit...
...competitor's specialty for his own act just as easily as Father Boyd joined an entertainers' union. "Watch out," said Gregory. "The Rev. Boyd had a heckler last week, and he turned him into a pillar of salt." The peril of mixing show business and religion is that the quip may become more important than the Word...
...theological scholarship and the desire to provide the "kind of learning, not wholly gained from books, that a man could take with him into the world to help him in the care and cure of souls." Pusey fears that all the arguments over religious doctrine and the place of religion in a university have never really been settled and still lie in wait to ambush today's theologians...