Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASEY (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Dr. Casey has to decide whether to attempt brain surgery on an amnesia victim. Robert Walker guest-stars...
Every time Sydney-born Methodist Evangelist Alan Walker, 52, delivered a sermon on radio or TV, his phone rang half the night with pleas for personal help. The experience told Walker that Australia's largest city (pop. 2,223,000) has a crying need-and a means at hand to solve it. And so he organized the Life Line Movement, which last March opened a $140,000 center in Sydney, where 250 Protestant laymen work 24 hours a day answering the telephone calls that come...
...potential suicides. If a plea requires specialized help, Life Line can call upon a battery of professional men ranging from lawyers to psychologists to podiatrists. For cases that need follow-through, the organization can use the 14 homes, hospitals and hostels of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission, which Walker also heads. It even conducts group therapy for many of the disturbed people who come its way, although Walker and Life Line's volunteers believe that "the greatest therapy of all" is worship...
...Walker believes that the ubiquitous, impersonal telephone is an ideal way to "put a mantle of Christianity" over the lonely crowd of the modern city. "Half of Sydney's population has lost all contact with the church," he says. "The problems emerging from the city cover the whole gamut of human need, from plain loneliness to suicidal despair." Since the Centre opened, the switchboard has taken more than 15,000 calls-including 90 from people who were threatening suicide. "We haven't lost one of them," says the Centre's director, Peter Stokes...
...Walker A.F.B., Roswell...