I Am Not a Christian Yet I Believe in God
A reader reflects on religion and belief. He rejects a single doctrine, asserts God is, and immortality comes through offspring and deeds. He admits weakness in living Christ’s teachings, outlines disassociation from the Methodist Church, and rejects a personal soul. He sees God in nature and all people, including those with differing beliefs, and notes the piece continues on page 2.
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Milton
Plato
Socrates
God
Tam
Christ
Methodist Church
Santa Claus
Letters on snow color faith and church life in Mississippi
A Mississippi reader argues about race and the meaning of white snow as a sign from God and vows to seek inclusive, New Testament guidance. Another letter praises growth through scripture and reflects on church shortcomings while affirming shared brotherhood among all people. Page 2 continues.
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New York
N. Y
P. D. East
Mississippi
The Case Against Obscenity in Supreme Court Ruling
A sharply divided Supreme Court in June 1957 held that obscenity lies outside First Amendment protection. Justice Harlan faulted the Brennan majority for treating obscenity as a distinct speech genus while dissents warned that defining obscenity by community standards risks punishing subjective reactions. critics cited classic works and authors routinely censored in several states, arguing the standard intrudes on free expression and risks sanitizing literature.
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Walter Gellhorn
Supreme Court
Justice Harlan
Justice Brennan
Harlan
Gulliver
Erskine Caldwell
God's Little Acre
Massachusetts
Colorado
Pennsylvania
New York
Edmund Wilson
Hecate County
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
James Joyce
Sinclair Lewis
Eugene O'Neill
John Dos Passos
Erich Maria Remarque
Jerome Frank
Congress
Frank
Douglas
Black
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East Side
Oxford, Miss
Washington, D. C
The
New York Hearth Tribune
Benjamin Karpman
Washington's
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
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