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...immigrant clergyman, Niebuhr first won national notice, fresh out of Yale, as the pastor of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church between 1915 and 1928. He rebelled against the older clergy in his German Evangelical denomination, agitating for Americanization of the church and supporting U.S. entry into World War I against Germany. "I am getting to be a violent American patriot," he confessed to a friend...
Niebuhr's strategy of reaching beyond the confines of Detroit's German community helped swell Bethel's membership sixfold in the years after the war. There was another lure: the pastor's preaching. He was, writes Fox, "the educated Protestant's Billy Sunday," who would "strut, gyrate, jerk, bend and quake." Bethel's growing prestige strengthened Niebuhr's hand when he took on Henry Ford, castigating the legendary automaker and other industrialists. He ended up a thoroughgoing Christian Socialist, evoking the biblical prophets and a bit of Marx as he thundered against the exploitation of labor...
...travel-study tour. So I know Vietnam's state culture of denial and deception regarding the Highlanders. It must be very frustrating to seek to independently corroborate the claims of Vietnamese officials when access to locals is so controlled. James F. Lewis Professor of Religious Studies Bethel College St. Paul...
DIED. JAN MINER, 86, stage and film actress best known for her role as Madge, the manicurist in Palmolive commercials from 1966 to 1992; in Bethel, Conn. In the ads the wisecracking Madge would praise the gentleness of the dish detergent to a customer, who would invariably react in shock when informed that her hands were soaking...
...DIED. JAN MINER, 86, versatile stage and film actress best known for her role as Madge the Manicurist in Palmolive commercials from 1966 to 1992; in Bethel, Connecticut. In the ads, the wise-cracking Madge would praise the gentleness of the dish detergent to a customer?who would invariably react in shock when informed that her hands were soaking...