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...suggest that history and a Higher Authority than the Council of Churches will determine whether a nation that spends $1.1 billion to celebrate Christ's birthday as a drinking occasion is sick rather than a sinner. As a father, a university faculty member and a human being concerned with the happiness and welfare of my fellow man, I prefer to remain "inappropriately abstinent...
...country is learning to accept its drinking habit as a social custom that is as ineradicable as it is harmless when practiced in moderation. The alcoholic is a product of any drinking culture, but America is beginning to realize that he is a sick man rather than a sinner. Since 1956, the American Medical Association has recognized the alcoholic as a medical problem. The National Crime Commission appointed by President Johnson two years ago has recommended the repeal of all public drunkenness laws, which generate one-third of criminal arrests...
...hell as other people. In his Principles of Christian Theology, Dr. John Macquarrie of Union Theological Seminary describes hell as "not some external or arbitrary punishment that gets assigned for sin, but simply the working out of sin itself, as it destroys the distinctively personal being of the sinner...
...Church in America abolished the denomination's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who showed repentance. Marriage is a "lifelong, indissoluble union," declared the delegates, "but God in his love does accept the sinner." The Methodist Social Creed was similarly revised to allow a minister to perform a marriage when the divorced person "is sufficiently aware of the factors leading to the failure of the previous marriage" and "sincerely preparing to make the proposed marriage truly Christian...
...most informative and forthright account of the story of the Protestant Reformation as seen through the eyes of that intriguing personage, Martin Luther [March 24]. I am grateful that this generation is increasingly developing an appreciation for this remarkable German Christian who was both saint and sinner at the same time. Luther may have rediscovered the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but he belongs to the whole Christian Church and not to Lutherans alone. Your compelling article goes a long way toward making this clear...