Word: congregationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he was raised a Unitarian amid the Lutherans and Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania, Updike joined the more middle-road Congregationalist Church in 1959. Then, a year later, as he was writing Rabbit, Run, the awareness of time passing pressed so closely on him that he felt a constant "sense of horror that beneath this skin of bright and exquisitely sculpted phenomena, death waits." It was a full-dress religious crisis lasting several months, and Updike says now that he got through it only by clinging to the stern, neo-orthodox theology of Switzerland's Karl Earth. In Earth...
...Sissified Lamb. Hard work and evangelism came readily to Barton. His father, an itinerant Congregationalist preacher before settling in an Oak Park, Ill, parish, raised his five children on the King James Bible. At 9, Barton was out delivering newspapers. He worked his way through Amherst by selling pots and pans, graduated in the midst of the 1907 panic and eventually turned to magazine writing and editing. A prolific contributor to such periodicals as Redbook and McCall's, he specialized in inspirational articles that were scorned by critics as simplistic pap but had enormous popular appeal...
...Paul's, Anglican insiders were betting that Prime Minister Harold Wilson would probably follow tradition, name either one of two outspoken ecclesiastical controversialists to the post: Ban-the-Bomb Canon Lewis John Collins of the cathedral, or Ardent Left-winger Edward Carpenter, Archdeacon of Westminster. Instead, Congregationalist Wilson surprised almost everyone by naming a dean who is relatively unknown outside church circles: the Ven. Martin Gloster Sullivan, 57, who as Archdeacon of London since 1963 has been responsible for the supervision of the diocese's 60 parishes...
...Moon," nonetheless provides both Catholics and architects with occasion for rejoicing. The winning design was selected in 1960 by a committee headed by Liverpool's archbishop, John Cardinal Heenan (now Archbishop of Westminster in London), from among 300 submitted. It turned out to have been executed by Congregationalist Frederick Gibberd, 59, the architect and city planner responsible for London's Heathrow Airport and the new town of Harlow...
...Protestant denominations formed the Federal Council of Churches, which announced its allegiance "to the toilers of America and to those who by organized effort are seeking to lift the crushing burdens of the poor." Until the outbreak of World War I, the 20th century was an exuberant time. As Congregationalist Minister Gaius Glenn Atkins remembers: "The people were ready [to conquer] 'the World for Christ in this Generation.' The air was full of banners." How Christ would react to the modern world was a favorite topic for sermons and books, including If Christ Came to Chicago, all designed...