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...Jerrold Gibson '51, Acting Minister of Memorial Church, used his sermon yesterday morning to criticize the recent series of CRIMSON editorials on "The Administration," for "a spirit of bitter denunciation, which is marked more by the effort to embarrass and ridicule than to work constructively...
Bishop Dun, 70, will not be able to carry the job through. This week, he will retire after 18 years of heading the diocese. Scholarly Rt. Rev. William Forman Creighton, 53, former bishop coadjutor of the diocese, replaces him. Bishop Dun preached his last sermon on Easter before 3,400 worshipers. Recalling it in the true spirit of his cathedral, he says: "I felt a little wave of being slightly moved, and I thought, 'That's the last time I'll walk in with the trumpets and the pomp.' It gives one a little sense...
...leathery Hungarian import who, in a 35-year career spent largely with Warner Bros., directed 80-odd films ranging from blood and thunder (The Charge of the Light Brigade) to canned Americana (White Christmas), was famed for his malapropisms ("Make a love nest") and his gall (he cut the sermon to the birds out of Francis of Assist as "too corny"), but stubbornly insisted "I put all the art into my pictures I think the audience can stand"; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...professor at the University of Bonn, Barth was technically a civil servant. But he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Führer or open his classes with the Nazi salute. It would be bad taste, he told them, "to begin a commentary on the Sermon on the Mount with Heil Hitler." At the end of 1934, Barth was brought before a Nazi court, found guilty of "seducing the minds" of German students. For his defense. Earth pulled a copy of Plato's Apology from his pocket, read Socrates' argument to the court of Athens...
...come to the Bible with our questions-How shall I think of God and the universe? How arrive at the divine?-it answers us, as it were, "My dear sir. these are your problems: you must not ask me! Whether it is better to hear Mass or hear a sermon, whether the proper form of Christianity is to be discovered in the Salvation Army or in 'Christian Science.' whether your religion should be more a religion of the understanding, or of the feelings, you can and must decide for yourself." The Bible tells us not how we should...