Word: churchgoers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orphan' any more. In joining the church I have the assurance that God's in his heaven and the world's all right, that's true. But a churchgoer who looks on going to church as a kind of private home-insurance is beneath contempt. God doesn't need our prayers; he won't do us favors for them. Christianity is a power-and a living force to help us live to the full here and now. It is affirmation of life...
Skewering the Bourgeois. Suburbanite Odiorne runs through the standard attitudes of the suburban churchgoer's critics-the "genteel disdain" for the quality of his faith, the "elegant reservations" as to the value of his energetic pursuit of bazaars, suppers, plays, baseball teams, bowling leagues, discussion groups. For these critics, says Odiorne: "The Johnny-come-lately, making up the pulpy mass of this return to religion it seems, has several basic flaws which make him offensive to the intellectual bourbons of the cloth," i.e., his preoccupation with getting ahead in the world, conforming to his neighbors and raising his children...
Poser. Reporter Bulloch, 49, a wiry (5 ft. 6 in., 130 lbs.), Texas-born family man and Episcopal churchgoer, has faced hazards before. In 1947 he was threatened with death for writing a series that led to conviction of an out-of-state gang that had tried to take over Oklahoma's bootleg industry. Another Bulloch series ended with the biggest liquor and gambling raids in Oklahoma history. In 1952 Bulloch was warned again, and the Mayes County prosecutor was killed during a gambling investigation on which they had worked together. After he reported buying absentee ballots simply...
...Speaking to ministers at Chicago Theological Seminary, he said: "I am alarmed to see exactly that kind of sacramentalist thinking increasingly adopted here which has done so much harm to the Protestant churches of Europe . . . The present emphasis on the sacraments in U.S. churches tends to glorify the churchgoer more than Christ." Barth cites four examples of sacramentalist tendencies: infant baptism, the tendency to entrust church decisions to officials and committees rather than congregations, Protestant leanings toward the Roman Catholic concept of the church as mediator of grace rather than as witness of grace. Furthermore, "we have largely the wrong...
School of Music, whose work has been performed by the Philadelphia and Louis ville Orchestras, Philadelphia-born Persi chetti is also editor of the small music publishing house Elkan-Vogel, which has published his paperbound Hymns and Responses for the Church Year ($1). An eclectic churchgoer himself, Persichetti expects his hymnal to appeal to adven turous congregations of all Protestant denominations. Choir directors at Lu theran, Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches have already indicated interest...