Word: religion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Salvation Army is a religion without elaborate liturgy or complicated creed. Its theology is the simplest practice of Christianity. It proceeds on the down-to-earth theory that Christ gave clear instructions on what to do about the degraded, the abandoned and the poor. And so it has fought-with its heart to God and its hand...
...problems of the term Monday evening--the proposed anti-discrimination clause in the new set of rules for undergraduate organizations. After long wrangling, the Council finally recommended that the Faculty outlaw the charter of any group which includes a membership clause discriminating on grounds of "race, color, nationality, or religion...
...anti-bias resolution includes a recommendation that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities put the law into effect by including it in the official "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations." It prohibits discrimination on grounds of "race, color, nationality, or religion...
What a comparison between Atheist William McCarthy and Bishop William Manning [TIME, Nov. 28] ! The first, a fighter against God; the second, a fighter for God. I am sure that Bishop Manning was fully aware of hypocrisy in high places and evil deeds done in religion's name. But, with a firm belief in the basic goodness of Christianity, he fought and won his battles against evil. Unfortunately, too many of us are like William McCarthy. We see the evil in the church as a sign for us to step out and ridicule it from the outside. This...
...fortnight, U.S. Methodists have been studying the state of the world and the dangers it holds for religion. Behind closed doors in a Manhattan hotel, 36 bishops of the Methodist Church spent three days trying to analyze the strengths and weaknesses, the failures and successes of Communism. Last week, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Methodists assembled for the tenth annual meeting of their Board of Missions and Church Extension. Some of what they heard was cheering: Chinese Communists were treating missionaries better than had been expected and the church in the U.S. was growing fast enough...