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Charged Pastor Merle G. Franke of Chicago in a recent issue of the Lutheran magazine Ecclesia Plantanda: "One of the most disturbing elements in the church today is the deterioration in the art of preaching." But Dr. Kyle Haselden, who reads as many as 50 sermons a week as editor...
Most dramatic element of what Scot tish Architect Sir Basil Spence calls his "prayer in stone" is the contrast between the starkly modern new building of pink sandstone (on the outside) and cool concrete (on the inside) and the bombed ruins, which will form a kind of entrance to the...
Out of this liturgical movement has come a demand for the altar-centered church. In 1942 Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians...
In 1955 Bishop Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary...
Too many pews may be empty in England, but the easy chairs, sofas and hassocks in front of television sets are well warmed. What is more, TV producers want more clergymen to man their panel-discussion programs. This chance to talk to a vast new congregation is hampered by one...