Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still merely a city in The Netherlands. But more & more Christians are now sensing that the world assembly of churches which begins there on Aug. 22 may make Amsterdam a landmark in contemporary Christian history. This week, in the first of four transatlantic broadcasts on the subject, the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, spoke to U.S. citizens on the meaning of the conference. Said...
...psychiatry is a secular corruption of confession) is common among Catholics, and shared by some non-Catholics. But the assumption is founded on ignorance: few Catholics know enough about psychiatry and few secularists enough about confession to see the deep-set difference between them. An articulate exception is the Rev. Victor White, a British Dominican, who writes about the difference in the current issue of the Catholic weekly, Commonweal...
...Rev. Michael Millen is a slight, earnest 26-year-old. A Methodist preacher, he wears a clerical collar, partly because he considers himself a "high" Methodist, partly as a badge of authority which his boys respect. He inherited Landhaven's 60 acres in Maine from his father, a wealthy farmer and businessman in Coin, Iowa. Young Millen had planned a school built to his own specifications ever since his own unsatisfying prep-school days. After Harvard ('42), he got three other well-to-do Harvard-men so fired with his ideas that they agreed to take jobs...
...built." Mrs. Starr, who had nursed in the rough & tough East Texas oilfields, had never been one "to mess around with churchgoing." Just the same, she thought that Negro churches might be interested in her idea, so she made the rounds. At the 15th she struck oil. The Rev. J. Henry Hardeman's Corinth Baptist Church was about to move from San Antonio's East Side to a new site. Mrs. Starr persuaded Hardeman that the $39,000 building fund should be used to turn the old church into a hospital instead...
...From the pulpit of Boston's South Baptist Church, the Rev. Louis W. West offered his congregation some political advice: "Most of us in this church are Republicans and the male members have a grand opportunity to show their party loyalty. I suggest they should all grow a Governor Thomas E. Dewey mustache...