Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REV.) JESSE M. CORUM
...When we were about twelve, Johnny and I belonged to a group called the Ohio Rangers," recalls the Rev. C. Edwin Houk, now a Presbyterian pastor in Glendale, Calif. "We had taken a vow never to use profanity. One evening the group started singing Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here. I continued with the phrase, 'What the hell do we care.' Well, I can tell you, it didn't sit well with Johnny. He came up to me, white-faced and righteous, and told me to stop. I think he was ready to knock my block...
There are other examples of poor technical journalism. For instance, the page-one article on religion in the first issue is headlined, "The Travail of Rev. Kean--Like Many Another City Minister He Copes With Shifting Population." Yet one must wade through 14 inches of front page copy, and another 18 inches under a similar headline on page 22, before reaching the first mention of Rev. Kean. This sort of thing can be annoying...
News of the Next World. The Rev. Tjalling Bruinsma, 45, former pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Zaltbomel, is half way through the monumental task of translating the Coffin Texts into modern language. An expert in hieroglyphics, Bruinsma has spent nearly three years translating the spells, which were collected from coffins in Egypt and in the world's major museums by his teacher, the late Egyptologist Adriaan de Buck. They were published, as hieroglyphics, in seven volumes by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute...
...Sell 95%." Churches that have inaugurated tithing often find the gains spectacular. Since 1954, when the Rev. Samuel Johnston began encouraging "percentage giving," the yearly income of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Wellesley, Mass., has increased from $55,000 to $132,000. The largest Protestant congregation (2,000 families) in Washington, D.C., Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church, inaugurated tithing in 1951 and has pushed income since then from...