Word: synods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto and Kingston Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Canada need not apologize for its resolution admitting that there is a powerful streak of spiritual power in Communism [TIME, May 28]. If the Russian people were not so deeply religious, Communism could not have succeeded. This war ought to illustrate to the most gullible that our conception of Christianity with its repetition of wars is neither Christian nor lasting and cannot hope to please the Lord who preached brotherhood and love...
...these sentiments had been expressed by some left-wing religious leader like Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, no one would have been much surprised. But they happened to be part of a committee report to the Toronto and Kingston Synod of the notably conservative Presbyterian Church in Canada. The committee took pains to make its sentiments clear...
...Synod (either taken by surprise or not paying strict attention) approved the report without a dissenting vote. Next day, finding itself clutched to the editorial bosom of the left-wing press, the Synod rubbed its eyes and sat up. Much of Canada's press spluttered with indignant denunciations. Last week a red-faced Synod spokesman explained emphatically that Canadian Presbyterians are not red-minded. The controversial passage had not appeared in the official copy, said he, but had been interpolated during the reading by an overenthusiastic chairman...
Last week Mount Olivet, now the second biggest church in the Augustana Lutheran Synod, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The congregation had already outgrown its new $50,000 church. Pastor Youngdahl was holding three identical services every Sunday, each overflowing the 465 seats and jamming the church to the doors. To meet the rush, he planned to split $400,000 between a new postwar church building and a Sunday school, youth center and gymnasium...
...this reception, says the Moscow radio, the three Metropolitans "informed" Stalin that the Orthodox Church intends to call a council of bishops, elect a Patriarch of Moscow and form a Holy Synod...