Word: worshipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent weeks, militant leftist students have been interrupting worship at West German Protestant churches, which they claim are unconcerned with the real problems of the world. Among other things, the demonstrators have demanded that ministers turn their services into group discussions on such topics as the immorality of capitalism. Since no pastor has yet seen fit to accept this demand, the agitators have occasionally littered the churches with copies of a bitter fiscal parody of the Lord's Prayer...
...secure sole power, put to death some 20,000 of his brother's supporters, but also adorned Rome with many handsome public buildings. Imperial statues such as this were set up both in homes and public squares, and Romans were expected to burn incense to them. Failure to worship the imperial god, as the early Christians knew, was punishable by imprisonment and death...
Looking far ahead, some church visionaries see a trend toward more worship in small, homogeneous groups-either at home, at work, or in chapel-size churchlets. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford, who believes that the traditional parish structure will eventually be an anachronism, suggests that the church should be prepared to quarter itself "in campaign tents rather than cathedrals. That would reflect the mobility of the modern church and allow it to go where the people are." Otherwise, Brown predicts, "we'll have a lot more buildings than we know what to do with...
Moral Crises. The majority of U.S. Christians are not yet prepared to worship in tents, and many American churches, in city as well as suburb, are hardly big enough to accommodate their regular crowds of Sunday worshipers. Moreover, plenty of churchmen see no conflict between service to man and obeisance to God. "I do not believe that not building a cathedral is going to solve the problems of the ghettos," says Georgia Baptist Layman C. H. Lampin. "On that philosophy nothing beautiful would ever be created at any cost." Even Urbanologist Daniel Moynihan deplored Bishop Donegan's decision...
Nonetheless, there is a widespread consensus that new cathedrals and churches ought to be significantly different from the old. First, they should be much more adaptable-designed not just as places of worship but as buildings that could house a variety of Christian activities, from study centers to theaters. Secondly, they ought to be ecumenical in sponsorship...