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Return to Cassocks. Though the sermon still remains the focus of most Protestant services, the most notable sign of the liturgical times is restoration of Communion services to a central place in the order of worship. At the Redford Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Communion is now monthly instead of four times a year; the church is considering whether to make the service weekly. At the Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio, the congregation recently asked their pastor to offer Communion every Sunday, instead of once a month. Many Lutheran churches have revived the sung "German Mass," according...
Along with their orders, Council delegates took with them a warning that their responsibility had begun, not ended. In a moving farewell sermon to the Assembly, Germany's famed Dr. Martin Niemoeller, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hesse-Nassau (and one of the Council's six new presidents), summed up the meaning of the Assembly work as a "sharing of a common responsibility for what has happened here and for what will be done in future and in years to come. Our general theme these days has been: 'Jesus Christ the light of the world...
...mysticism. It is only to say that one can follow Eliot's emotion in their stern music better than in any of his other poems. He read the last ("my best"), called "Little Gidding," and he enchanted his audience: the lines spread and flowed, sometimes it was a sermon, sometimes an elegy, and always it was harmonious and beautiful--not at all like Eliot's older dissonances...
Since then, the weekly has been less a moralizer (although a sermon still appears in every issue) than an observer. To its pages have flocked Judaism's leading thinkers, among them (in 1896) the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who graciously handed the Chronicle an exclusive beat on his plan for a Jewish state. The Chronicle has had other scoops. It first brought to world attention detailed news of the 1881 pogroms in eastern Europe, and in 1903, despite czarist censorship, smuggled to England the first full accounts (with pictures) of a massacre at Kishenev in which...
Hudson also brought a concentration on "religious consciousness"-the stern Calvinist doctrine that makes a minister duty-bound to remind members that they are sinners. In place of tranquilizing theology he gave sermons on "Who Owns Your Soul?" ("Is it an insurance company, a bank, a labor union or an industry?"), on "The Church in Our World" ("It neither disturbs nor comforts"), and on the pricklier passages of the Sermon on the Mount. "My contention," he says, "is that the Gospel applies not to 1st century man but to 20th century...