Word: congregationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey (Congregationalist) said the U.S. should not "set policy for other nations and people." U.S. foreign aid, said Candidate Humphrey, "should not be denied on the basis of any country's policy relating to birth control...
Founded in 1892 at the height of the Wisconsin timber boom, Northland began as a flourishing Congregationalist secondary school. When pines and people dwindled, it became a fading nonsectarian college. Gus Turbeville inherited a huddle of Victorian buildings, an unaccredited school without entrance requirements, a refuge for flunkees from other colleges. More than one trustee said to him: "I'd like to resign as soon as possible...
Marriage Freedom. The report was written in England by a 21-member committee of theologians, physicians and sociologists under Congregationalist Dr. Norman Goodall, sixtyish, who is secretary of the Joint Committee of the World Council of Churches and the International Missionary Council. The committee substantially accepted the official Anglican and Episcopal position-spelled out at last year's Lambeth Conference (TIME, Sept. 8, 1958)-that there are two, separable, equally moral reasons for marital intercourse: procreation and sexual love...
...constitution on such short notice would postpone its going into effect at least until the summer of 1963-General Synods meet only at two-year intervals. But the Oberlin meeting decided to reconvene for a special session next July to vote on the constitution. This would give the Congregationalist and E. & R. church members a year to ratify the constitution, which could then be put into effect by the third General Synod...
...some taverns and coffee houses of its own. Then he heard that the Rev. Robert W. Spike, a general secretary of the Congregational Board of Home Missions, was interested in organizing the same kind of experiment. Delattre promptly applied for the job, landed it, and became a Congregationalist. "I'm not denominationally inclined," he explains. "I don't think of myself as a Protestant, but as a Christian in the primitive sense...