Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kyle Haselden, who reads as many as 50 sermons a week as editor of the nondenominational magazine The Pulpit, defends his contemporaries. Says he: "The level of preaching in Protestant churches is higher than in the past." Squirming in the Pews. The standout preachers of the past, says the Rev. Walfred Erickson, of suburban Seattle's Clyde Hill Baptist Church, "had the ability to produce a temporary emotional excitement. Today congregations are not as interested in sensationalism." While yesterday's preacher was probably the best-educated man in his community, today's minister peers out over...
Thus last week the Rev. John L. Reedy, editor of the Catholic weekly magazine Ave Maria, imagined himself involved in a scene whose possibilities have bothered many Protestants and Jews. Like all Catholics, including the Pope, the nation's first Catholic President is bound by church law to go to confession at least once a year* - and he has already been more than a year in office. For Catholics. non-Catholics, and any who feared that a Catholic President might try to resolve the nation's problems with the help of some unknown grey eminence in a confessional...
...exchange of letters that followed (they never again met), the Rev. John Hamilton Cowper Johnson of the order known as the Cowley Fathers helped her return to the sacraments of the Church of England, from which her conscience had kept her during her long adultery. Though she asked, and expected, that the letters be destroyed, here they all are, from 1950 to 1952 (another volume is to come), edited and with an introduction by her third cousin, Constance Babington-Smith. Numerous notable literary lights were scandalized when Letters to a Friend was published in England last October. Said Author Rebecca...
...Mississippi is the New Frontier of freedom" stated the Rev. Robert L. T. Smith, the first Negro candidate for Congress in that state in the Twentieth Century, in Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...years. Thomas Lanier Williams was born in 1911 in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Miss. He and his older sister Rose absorbed their mother's lofty sense of status as the daughter of a clergyman in Delta country. Tom loved to tag along after the Rev. Mr. Dakin on parish calls and listen to the conversations. "Tom always was a little pitcher with big ears, and I think he still is," says Mrs. Williams. Years later, until the old man died at 98, Williams kept his grandfather with him six months a year, took...