Churchman Afield urges literacy as anti communism
Dr. Frank C. Laubach, returning from six months in Asia and Australia, argues that defeating communism hinges on teaching people to read and write and providing material and technical aid without political strings. He says Christianity is popular in Siam, Korea, India, and Pakistan and urges full use of Point Four type aid and Truman's program.
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Asia
Africa
Frank C. Laubach
Australia
Laubach
Siam
Korea
India
Pakistan
Truman
United States
How Meet the Raid on Churches in Eastern Europe
A Western editorial warns of a Soviet driven drive to subordinate churches in Eastern Europe. It urges Western Christians to support faith through fellowship, prayer, and aid while stressing spiritual strength over material force. The piece cites bishops Ordass and Beran and championed by World Council of Churches leaders as evidence of an intensifying campaign.
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Europe
Ordass
Beran
Prague
Mindszenty
West
Paul
Experience of God versus church creed in Christianity
A critique of church creeds separating doctrine from personal religious experience. It argues creed without experiential faith is hollow, warns against church exclusivism, and envisions a potential harmony between Christianity and democracy through personal relation with Christ.
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Carlyle
God
Emerson
Mannal
Missionary Diffendorfer reports on Japan Christian University plan
Dr Ralph E Diffendorfer arrives in New York from Tokyo with details on the projected international non sectarian Christian University in Japan. The Japan Christian University Foundation Inc funds a 10 million dollar drive to open in spring 1951 on a 350 acre site near Tokyo.
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New York
Tokyo
Ralph E. Diffendorfer
Japan
Diffendorfer
Japan Christian University Foundation, Inc
Mitaka
Lutheran World Relief Ships 30 Million Pounds Abroad
Lutheran World Relief announced 1,760,653 pounds of relief shipped abroad in June, bringing total exports since January 1946 to 30,000,000 pounds. The value of shipments exceeds 10 million dollars. Church World Service ranks seventh in exports with about 3,400 shipments yearly, totaling 17,596,019 net pounds overseas this year valued at about 4,933,872 dollars.
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Lutheran World Relief
Church World Service
Interdenominational Relief Agency
United States
CWS
Negro Baptists in West Virginia Repudiate Robeson
An influential group of about 150 Negro Baptists at their 56th annual Sunday school convention in West Virginia adopted a resolution repudiating Paul Robeson statement that no Negro in the United States would fight a war against Russia. They said Robeson does not speak for them and asserted 40,000 Negro Baptists in the state share the sentiment. The repudiation follows other leaders who also opposed Robeson.
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Tokyo
Diffendorfer
The
Christian University Foundation
Kyoshi Togasaki
Takaaki Yamamoto
Waseda University
University Foundation
United States
Canada
Hisato Ichimada
University
Hirohito
Takaimatsu
Setsuko Chichibu
Soichi Saito
Repatriation Board
Welfare Ministry
Japan Y.M.C.A
Japan Christian Education Association
Japan
ANS
Paul Robeson
Paris
U.S
Russia
West Virginia
Robeson
Conventon
Jackie” Robinson
Protestant Church Membership Rise in Austria Report
An official report shows Austria's Protestant churches total 416,369 members at end-1948, up from 342,308 in 1938 and 393,386 in 1944, with 398,259 Lutherans and 18,110 Reformed members. The rise reflects influx of displaced persons. The church counts 229 clergy and 50 ministry students.
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Austria
Sproul Named Honorary Chairman of Goto Church Movement
Dr. Robert G. Sproul president of the University of California is named honorary chairman of the national Goto Church Movement. He succeeds Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur who died recently. Sproul says worship is crucial in a hurried age and calls for power and faith for fulfilling lives.
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Sproul
Robert G. Sproul
University of California
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Akron's Biggest Baptist Church Captures Nation Attention
Life magazine highlights Akron Ohio's 97 foot tall neon topped church opened last Easter with 15000 weekly attendees. The 4500 seat temple fields buses cars and ambulances for Sunday worship and offers child care, aiming to make churchgoing as easy as other public conveniences. Reverend Dallas Franklin Allington began a mission 20 years ago in a shack in a rough area, leading to a modern church enterprise that budgets about 5500 dollars weekly from offerings and pursues new outreach methods over traditional architecture.
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Akron
Ohio
Life Magazine
Dallas Franklin Allington
Hell
Maine Congregationalists Back Anti-Betting Fight
The Social Action Committee of the Congregational Christian Conference of Maine pledges support to the Christian Civic League of Maine in seeking a referendum on legalizing parimutuel betting on horse races. The legislature's action is called deeply regrettable as gambling interests gain a foothold. Paul K. Stewart directs a namegetting drive for 22 500 signatures by Aug 6 to urge Gov Payne to call a referendum.
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Social Action Committee
Congregational-Christian Conference of Maine
Christian Civic League of Maine
Maine
Paul K. Stewart
League
Frederick G. Payne
Basic English Bible completes translation project
The Basic English Bible began twenty years ago under Samuel Henry Hooke at the University of London. Using a 1000-word vocabulary, translators issued the New Testament in 1941 selling 150000 copies. Cambridge University Press released the full Bible last week marking the completion of the project.
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Samuel Henry Hooke
University of London
Cambridge University Press
Schweitzer at Aspen in a Goethe Bicentennial tribute
Allan A. Hunter profiles Albert Schweitzer at Aspen College in a Christian Century piece on his Goethe lecture. The essay paints Schweitzer as a vast, skilled artisan of life reverence, whose humility and hard headed scholarship reveal a disciplined spirituality. He embodies service, integrity, and a sense of eternal life through action, challenging readers to seek meaning through their own responsibility.
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Ving
Schweitzer
Goethe
Wilmar
Colorado
Swedenborgians Reelect Head at Denomination Convention
The Rev. Richard H. Tafel of Philadelphia was reelected president of the Council of Ministers of the New Jerusalem Church U S A Swedenborgian at the annual convention. Sessions ran from San Francisco to Los Angeles and featured the cornerstone laying for the Swedenborg Memorial Wayfarers Chapel on Palos Verdes cliffs. Architect Lloyd Wright designed the chapel honoring Emmanuel Swedenborg with consecration ceremonies highlighted by actor Charles Laughton reciting the 107th Psalm.
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Richard H. Tafel
Philadelphia
Council of Ministers
New Jerusalem
U.S.A
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Palos Verdes Cliff
Lloyd Wright
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Charlea Laughton
Protestant Churches Stand Firm on Communism
The World Council of Churches declared religious freedom safeguards all true freedom and warned against totalitarianism. Nine church leaders from eight nations drafted a resolution denouncing Marxist doctrine and urging Christians to stand firm in faith while resisting Communist encroachment with spiritual measures.
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World Council of Churches
Chichester
England
World Council
George K. A. Bell
Central Committee
Martin Niemeller
Norway
Arne Fjellbu
Hendrick Kraemer
Germany
Otto Dibe Jus
Joseph L. Hromadka
Jan Hus
Prague
Tron
Council
Jesus Christ
God
Vatican
Vacation schools draw record five million children
Ruth Elizabeth Murphy of the International Council of Religious Education says five million children are expected to attend Protestant vacation schools in U S churches this summer. The enrollment would rise by 500000 from last year and be the largest single summer total on record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Ruth Elizabeth Murphy
International Council of Religious Education
Mirror of Opinion on Orwell 1984 as urgent warning
The Life editorial assesses George Orwell's 1984 as a vital warning for the 20th century. It argues against pessimism, notes the danger of leftist readers trivializing the threat, and highlights defense through belief in truth, liberty, and human dignity.
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George Orwell
Mel
Orwell
Jonathan Swift
Yahoos
Gulliver
Does the Church Have a Future
Chad Walsh argues the church shows life by engaging with all society not just its own. He warns against a narrowed social gospel and urges the church to speak for justice amid injustice, embracing risk as it seeks to embody Christ’s total claim on life. The piece stresses church renewal hinges on courage and totality.
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Chad Walsh
Presbyterian Life
Christ
California
Mississippi
Detroit
Hell
Peace Right Now The Survey
The article argues that today there is peace though not signed on a green topped table and that a calm, patient approach is vital. It notes the atom bomb as a possible deterrent and calls for national strength, forbearance, and skill in a new role of pacific leadership.
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