Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seshaji Maharaj, a Brahman priest from northwest India, has worked out a new way to be happy in marriage. His formula: husband worship. Last week, only three days after India's Parliament granted Hindu women the right of divorce (TIME, May 16), Sri Seshaji had enough success with his idea to give Western marriage counselors a lot to think about...
...seen during the ceremony, contemplated the requests for similar ceremonies that were coming in. The children born of such spiritually reconstituted marriages, he said, "might restore happiness and peace to this unhappy and troubled world. Hindu society can be reformed in no time if the meaning of husband worship is properly understood . . . I am confident of converting at least 100 couples in each town...
...well trained in Christian doctrine and church history, teach full 50-minute periods, be accompanied by a "classroom observer" who is to be "an additional set of eyes and ears ... so that the teacher may know his pupils . . ." Other conditions for effective use of the series: regular family worship on Sunday and a weekly class for parents and godparents...
...barriers between Protestant denominations. The Rev. George L. Ford, executive director of the ultraconservative N.A.E., told the organization's convention in Chicago that unless it is stopped, "the liberal ecumenical movement will usurp the rights of the churches." The ecumenical movement, he said, favors such things as "downtown worship centers which would not only take the place of regular Protestant churches, but would be headquarters for Catholics and Jews as well." Cried N.A.E. President Henry H. Savage: "The only statement of faith of [the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches] is so inane that...
...Christian, and what may reasonably be called the post-Christian . . . It appears to me that the second change is even more radical than the first. Christians and Pagans had much more in common with each other than either has with a post-Christian. The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as that between those who worship and those who do not . . . Surely Seneca and Dr. Johnson are closer together than Burton and Freud...