Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctrine: they have no church, no God in the Western sense. U Nu is tolerant and approving of other "true" religions, e.g., Christianity. He insisted upon paying the expenses of Roman Catholic priests on a recent pilgrimage to Rome; his troops gave the Anglican Bishop of Rangoon, the Right Rev. George West, a safe-conduct across the lines into the rebel Karen districts so that he could administer Communion to the villagers...
Afterwards, to a question from the floor: "Have any avowed atheistic Communists been converted to Christianity? If so, have they suffered any social or political disability?" Bishop Peter replied: "The answer to the first question is yes, and the answer to the second question is no." But the Rev. Guenter Jacob of Cottbus in the Soviet Zone of Germany saw things differently. "It is impossible." he said in a later speech, "to believe in both our Christian dogma and in the Communist dogma . . . It is an either-or proposition for any single-minded person...
...Christians crowded into the church, the chapel and two halls of the First Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill. this week for a service the like of which the world has never seen before. In the processional marched 700 priests and patriarchs, bishops and archbishops, ministers and laymen. The Rev. Dr. Marc Boegner of France read the First Lesson (Isaiah 53) in French. Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, read the Second Lesson (Philippians 2:1-11) in Greek. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway led the recitation of the Apostles' Creed in German. The Rt. Rev. G.K.A. Bell, Bishop...
...Rev. Braxton Bragg Sawyer stepped into an Oklahoma City bookstore one day and came out with a crusade. Inside he had found a group of teen-agers giggling over nudist magazines. Baptist Sawyer was alarmed to see Satan in this unexpected quarter. "Nudists!" he said. "I had preached for 20 years without ever using the word nudist...
...Packwood, executive director of the American Sunbathing Association (with more than 15,000 members), wrote to Evangelist Sawyer and invited him to the A.S.A. national convention at Battle Creek, Mich, "to learn the real truth about nudism." Last week, as the nudists shucked their clothes at Battle Creek, the Rev. Braxton Bragg Sawyer girded his loins for a fight...