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Probing of the Heart. One girl both committed her "sin" and asked pardon for it while at the microphone. Many of her fellow students, she said, were "silly to give testimony" because she couldn't believe they were sincere; then she asked forgiveness for doubting their sincerity. A spare young faculty member rose to confess: "I've led a double life. I've lived a life of defeat ... As you know, I was once a missionary in China . . . After the war started I came back. I told people it was because of the war. But it wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 42 Hours of Repentance | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...expected that they will fit into a pattern of stable married life without a struggle . . . What comes cheaply is not valued highly. But even more important, when a man knowingly deviates from the moral law, his ability to resist further temptation is weakened. Habit and the memory of sin are not easily effaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sex Before Marriage | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...high movie brass professed to take a dim view of Actress Bergman's professional future. Only Colleen Townsend, the starlet who is reportedly quitting films to become a divinity student, spoke up. She recalled the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." The first stone was promptly cast by 83-year-old Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford, who announced that he was banning Stromboli without seeing it, along with all other Bergman pictures. "She is a disgrace . . . to American women," he fumed. "I'm glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Basket of Ricotta | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Speaking in Memorial Church on "What Men Hate to Hear" the Bishop described the world as "more intent on exploitation and making money than on service or doing a good job." He felt it was time man realized that "the wage of sin is death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neill Outlines Moral Pillars | 2/11/1950 | See Source »

...psychoanalyst tries to rescue his patient from bondage to his unconscious by using the phenomenon called "transference," in which the analyst takes the place of the parent against which the patient's "sin" is directed. Sanders sees

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Freudian Christianity | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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