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Bender recently bounced out on the platform of Dayton's Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church, beamed down on perhaps 75 persons, and said hoarsely: "Don't worry. I'm not going to sing." He read a couple of pages of his prepared text, stopped and asked: "You don't want to hear this, do you?" At best, the audience seemed indifferent, so Bender scrapped his script, began pacing around, pounding on the rostrum, on the walls and on a nearby piano. He talked extemporaneously, mostly about singing. Said Cleveland-born Bender: "We don't hold...
...Religion," preached Methodist Pastor Ralph W. Sockman to his Christ Church congregation on Manhattan's Park Avenue, "seems to have become the vogue in America. Church attendance is up. Church membership is growing faster than our population. Church finances are nourishing." But, he warned, this can lead to the exploitation of religion by politics, business and other interests. "Even the pulpit could be used to exploit religion rather than to explore it and expound it. We must be on guard against the tendency to use godly labels for products that are not really...
...George A. Buttrick will preach almost all of the sermons during the term. The only visitors scheduled at present are Paul J. Tillich, University Professor of Christianity; Reinhold Niebuhy, dean of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary; and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, of the Washington, D.C., area of the Methodist Church...
...board of trustees of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, voted in May to reprimand an S.M.U. English professor who has been waging on one-man public campaign of anti-semitism for the past several years...
...facts "do not bear out the allegations made by Dr. Beaty," said the Brustees' statement, which followed a rear-unanimous vote of condemnation by the S.M.U. faculty. The President of the University, Umphrey Lee, an ordained Methodist minister, had also denounced Beaty's charges...