Word: weatherhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Praise & Protest. The report, bannered in the press and seized upon by cartoonists, drew ardent praise and scandalized protests. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, a past president of the Methodist Conference, found it "just right." The Rt. Rev. Ronald Williams, Anglican Bishop of Leicester, demurred: "Sexual intercourse outside marriage is wrong, and young people should be told this." This week the British Council of Churches must consider whether to accept the report as an official pronouncement, and the extremes of disagreement guaranteed a battle...
Perhaps the temple's greatest preacher, Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, 65, retired last week after 24 years of urging that religion should work in alliance with medicine and psychiatry. Under Dr. Weatherhead the church kept a staff of ten psychiatrists ("Good religion is never bad psychology, and good psychology is never bad religion...