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...question of religion-in-Russia a new voice spoke. It belonged to Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, whose Sunday morning Radio Pulpit (NBC) pulls 4,000 letters a week. Back from the same Soviet-sponsored tour of the U.S.S.R. that convinced Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton that Russia was in a fair way to hit the sawdust trail (TIME, Aug. 26), Park Avenue Methodist Sockman, writing in the Christian Century, stuck prudently to factual reporting, left the enthusiasm to Baptist Louie. Excerpts...
Each week 4,000-odd letters like these pour into the office of plain-speaking Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of the National Radio Pulpit. Rated by volume of fan mail. Methodist Sockman of Park Avenue's swank Christ Church is No. 1 Protestant radio pastor of the U.S.* Since good, grey, Congregationalist S. Parkes Cadman pioneered the field in 1923, radio religion has become a national institution, is preached to an estimated congregation of ten million...
Every Sunday morning at 10:00 (E.S.T.), NBC listeners are transported to a church of the air by the chords and tremolos of a studio organ, choristers singing such favorite hymns as Fairest Lord Jesus. After a simple prayer, well-groomed, grey-haired Dr. Sockman-who looks like a successful lawyer and talks like the man next door-preaches a sermon in everyday terms on subjects close to every listener: "Fears May Be Liars"; "How Easy Is Evil?''; "Does It Pay to Be Good...
Nationwide Parish. Though requests for copies of sermons make up the bulk of it, Dr. Sockman's record-holding letter haul contains enough on personal problems and perplexities to give him a bird's-eye view of his nationwide parish. On the "current thinking of these parishioners, Dr. Sockman hazards these general conclusions...
...Sockman, radio religion is no substitute for churchgoing. Says he: "Religion is like art, or music, or books. The more of it you get, the more you want." But radio religion, he believes, does nudge more people into church...