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This week Truth Salesman David Elton Trueblood, 53, got the biggest selling job of his life. He was appointed chief of Religious Policy for the U.S. Information Agency. As such, he will be in charge of one of the busiest, farthest-flung and least-known religious enterprises in the world...
...Trueblood's job is technically a new one, but for the past three years Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney, minister emeritus of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., has served as full-time religious consultant to U.S.I.A. with the help of an inter-faith council...
Only in Snippets. "It's very exciting," said Quaker Trueblood last week. "The job seems to take in everything I've ever known and learned. It's really an enlargement under government auspices of what I've already been doing...
What he has been doing is to conduct one of the most effective ministries to laymen, churched and unchurched, in the U.S. In 1944 Iowa-born Dr. Trueblood, then chaplain and professor of philosophy of religion at Stanford University, decided to begin writing and working for all literate people instead of merely other writers and scholars. He wrote a successful book called The Predicament of Modern Man. But he was still unsatisfied. "We knew what the Nazis believed," he says. "All we had to do was read Mein Kampf. We knew what the Russians believed; we could read Lenin...
...Trueblood went to England "to get a better perspective on the West," wrote The Life We Prize, which he considers the most important of his 13 books. Since 1946 he has been professor of philosophy at Quaker-run Earlham College in Indiana and a leading light in the Society of Friends...