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...Christian Century, Methodist Stockwell described what had happened to him and the choice he had made. In last week's Christian Century, the Rev. Kenneth J. Foreman Jr., 31, a Presbyterian missionary who spent 7½ months under house arrest in Kunming, attacked what he called the "sin" of Missionary Stockwell. He contrasted Stockwell with Vernon Stones, an English Methodist whom the Communists kept in solitary confinement for many months but who refused to make any confession of guilt...
...been ordered, on pain of action by his peers in the Federation, to clean up his criminal-ridden waterfront locals in the Port of New York. Nevertheless, on appearing as a witness before Tobey and his waterfront investigation committee, Joe refused to admit that he was heavy with sin...
...finally managed to baptize him three months before, tried to persuade him to take Communion. "I would only be too happy to do so," scribbled U. S. Grant, "if I felt myself fully worthy. I have a feeling in regard to taking the sacriment [sic] that no worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note, the bishop said there was no hurry: the general would probably live for quite a spell yet. In reply, Grant...
...proves it. And what is this neo-Puritanism? It is an authoritarian morality that is completely intolerant of opposition; a prudishness in support of that morality; a passive and negative philosophy of life, purporting to leave all to a God that is no less prudish (the doctrine of original sin), no less authoritarian (a jealous God unmindful that he created men with free wills) . . . The remedy for "growing intellectual confusion" is neither in Gnosticism nor Puritanism. The one is without a heart, the other is without a head. One offers answers, the other offers dilemmas. The solution of this mess...
...projects, must close the gap. often found in Italy, between the church and a hard-pressed, often desperate working population. The fact that 19% of Italy voted Communist in the last nationwide provincial elections does not unduly depress him. Says he: "The only thing that cannot be Christianized is sin...