Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reconcile religious freedom with Establishment (the Church's traditional status as the national church), York suggests four reforms: 1) legislation by which the Crown could allow changes in worship without consulting Parliament; 2) Church courts from which appeal to the civil courts could be made "only when the ecclesiastical courts had failed to observe [their own] rules"; 3) a grant to the Church of the right to be consulted in the appointment of its chief officers (it is ordinarily consulted now as a courtesy and for guidance); 4) legislation allowing Church Convocations to frame and enact new canons (church...
...there so many faithful Moslems? British Author R. V. C. Bodley, who lived many years among them, suggests this partial answer: in the illimitable nothingness of the desert or the oppressive dark of the jungle, without the distractions of Western civilization, men find the need for worship constant and pressing...
...turns biographer, he also turns defense counsel. His Andrew Johnson was a passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...
...sensitive, trained ear of Professor Richard T. Gore is much of the music now played and sung in Protestant churches. "Go where you will," he advises in this week's Christian Century, "to the village church or the great metropolitan cathedral . . . most of the music used in our worship services is little better than blasphemy...
...think the Soviets have what it takes. . . . How come they haven't been able to turn out a first-rate automobile? There are no top secrets in a Chevvy. . . . I'll tell you why. To make machines work . . . it takes a bunch of kids who worship the pliers and the screwdriver rather than the hammer & sickle. And that's us-not them. . . . Don't go telling me they're going to drop an atom bomb on my home. They'll first have to learn the difference between borscht and lubricating...