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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1969
Page
3
Louis Cassels presents Jesus as a fully human figure with both toughness and tenderness. He argues against viewing Jesus as merely mythical or meek and mild, highlighting his courage, compassion, and contagious joy. The piece contends Jesus’ unselfish life remains a personal challenge to readers after 20 centuries.
Vermont Episcopalians were urged by the Diocesan Council to press North Vietnam for humane treatment of captured military prisoners. They called for letters to North Vietnamese officials, members of Congress, executive departments, and diplomats to apply constructive pressure.
The New York Daily News color film The Trip Back will be shown at Crescent Boulevard Missionary Alliance Church at 7 p.m. Sunday. It targets adults and youths, recounting Flora Fisher’s 23 years on drugs and urging professional help, with a Q&A for a high school group. The event invites public attendance as a church community service, tied to Advent season statements and broader Episcopal concerns.
Local churches list Sunday School times worship services and youth activities across Bennington Shaftsbury Pownal and Woodford Hollow with sermons by pastors including Rev Richard Lenehan Rev Kenneth Schwebel and Rev Elwin M Ellis plus a screening of The Dick Fisher Story and a New Year theme service A note warns church news deadline moves up due to New Year’s Day.
Pope Paul VI urged a longer truce for Vietnam and prayed for peace amid Nigeria’s war and Middle East tensions. He delivered an 18 minute Christmas message from St. Peter's Basilica to about 100,000 in St. Peter's Square and visited Roman slums to comfort a widow and children. He also spoke to Vatican diplomats about the fire of love and peace Christ desires to kindle in the world.
In Boston Archbishop Cardinal Cushing introduces a four point code to announce mixed marriages starting January 1. The code allows banns for mixed marriages with consent, limits banns to the Catholic party’s parish, omits banns if the other church’s norms are violated, and requires prior dispensation before banns.
Excavators in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter uncovered a 2 200 year old wall relief showing a seven branched Menorah likely tied to the Second Temple. Nahman Avigad of Hebrew University leads the team, dating the piece to the late first century BCE. It predates Rome’s depiction on Titus’s arch and may reflect direct eyewitness creation. The find, restored, is now on display at the Israel Museum and may influence views of the state seal’s Menorah symbol.
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