Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the election, into Birmingham came the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the 1956 bus boycott in Montgomery. Without consulting most of the Birmingham Negro leaders, King announced that "Birmingham is the most thoroughly segregated big city in the U.S. today," said that he would lead demonstrations there until "Pharaoh lets God's people go." Specifically, he demanded creation of a biracial commission, fair hiring practices, amnesty for previously arrested demonstrators, an end to lunch-counter and other segregation...
Last week Connor and Police Chief Jamie Moore got an injunction against all demonstrations from a state court. King announced that he would ignore it, led some 1,000 Negroes toward the business district. Both King and one of his top aides, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, were promptly thrown into jail...
...human flesh, preached and worked miracles, by his death redeemed man, and rose again to heaven, where he "sitteth on the right hand of God." So say the Bible and the Christian creeds; but since the story makes no sense to many literal, science-minded men. the Right Rev. John A. T. Robinson. 43, Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, accommodatingly explains in a new book that the doctrine is mostly dubious. Published last month in a five-shilling paperback gaily titled Honest to God, Bishop Robinson's revision of Anglican teaching has become a runaway English bestseller and has stirred...
...Newspaper, which argued that "a reading of Robinson's book should be accompanied by a recollection of the conspicuous failure of the Church of England as a whole to make Christianity meaningful to this generation," and deplored the "preoccupied, weary effort to keep the old machinery going." The Rev. Peter Hollis of Birmingham gave Robinson some rank-and-file support: "I have often wondered how long we could continue to present the Gospel in traditional categories with any real effect...
Died. The Very Rev. Terence Stephen McDermott. 76. only American ever to head Roman Catholicism's Dominican Order of Friars Preachers, an Iowa-born priest who served for an unprecedented 25 years (from 1930 to 1955) as provincial of the Dominicans' St. Joseph Province, which covers the Eastern U.S., was named in 1954 to a nine-month interim term as the order's vicar-general in Rome; in Manhattan...