Word: synods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ller summoned the Evangelical National Synod to meet in Berlin, keeping this summons out of the Press. The Synod is virtually hand-picked but some opposition flared. "Eight hundred pastors have already been suspended for opposing the present Church regime!'' cried Church Councilor Meisel, representing Bishop Wurm of Württemberg. "Where is this...
Riding the Synod roughshod, Reichs-bischof Müller demanded that it abdicate its legislative powers, vesting them in his Church Cabinet and compelling all pastors to take, on pain of expulsion from their pastorates, this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church...
...Leader's" shadow, Reichsbischof Müller jammed his entire program through the Synod by a vote of 42 to 12. The meek churchmen even abolished their Church flag: a purple cross on a white field. To correspondents the triumphant Reichsbischof cried: "We must now build for our Leader a really strong Church...
...Legion of Decency pledge in unison. In Chicago the Catholic Daughters of America induced a like number of families to sign. The Philadelphia and Hartford Federations of Churches ap proved the Legion. Without mentioning it by name the Central Conference of American Rabbis commended its aims. The Ohio Presbyterian Synod voted in favor of the Legion. So did the executive commit tee of the Federal Council of Churches, although with characteristic caution it refrained from recommending the pledge to its constituents...
...through his spectacles at the babe and pronounced: "This is the minister we have been praying for.'' Ordained at 23, Covert asked a Minnesota missions superintendent for "the hardest field in the State," was assigned to an industrial suburb of St. Paul. He soon became the youngest synod moderator ever elected in Minnesota. Today Dr. Covert is called a "pastor to pastors" because he has sympathetically heard the woes of thousands of his fellows. Tall and stocky, he dresses well, has twinkling eyes and a stubborn shock of white hair, has spoken before 297 local presbyteries. The Philadelphia...