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Died. Helen Emily Springer, 81, who shared her Methodist bishop husband's missionary work for 44 years, traveled extensively throughout Southern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo, where she devised the first written medium for three native languages so that she could translate Christian literature into the vernacular; in Mulungwishi, Belgian Congo...
...Ideas. Co-chairman of the Workshop with Snyder, and a recognized leader in the field of religious radio, is energetic, balding Everett C. Parker, 36. He was working for a radio station in Chicago when a Methodist minister asked him to help get a sponsor for a religious show. Parker became so interested in the field that he began experimenting with new program ideas, ended by getting 152 churches to cooperate in a regular broadcast. Parker quit his job to study for the ministry, was ordained a Congregational pastor in 1943, and began to devote his full time...
Schools supported by public taxes, she wrote, should be completely free of any private or religious control. She did not deny the contributions that "Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist or whatever" schools might make to the community. But if a U.S. citizen wanted his children to have special denominational training, then he should pay for it and not expect the Government to. "The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us," she concluded...
...eight days at Wellesley, Congregationalists debated resolutions and listened to speeches from their own and visiting churchmen. They heard New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, railing against the Red-hunting temper of the times, urge that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed...
...firm believer in interfaith understanding, Editor Stewart, a member of the United Presbyterian Church, has taught at a Methodist Sunday school, and every year goes on a three-day Roman Catholic retreat. During summers, he preaches what he practices by substituting in the pulpit for vacationing Protestant pastors. But Stewart's own pastor considers him a disappointing churchgoer. Since he started covering the God beat, Frank Stewart has been to his own church just twice...