Word: protestantitis
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Not mentioned by Moderator Virgilio Sommani in his list of faiths at whose disposal the Waldensian churches were placed was the Jewish faith. We held regular Friday night and also holiday services in the little Protestant chapel in Cerignola, and sometimes the Waldensian members would come in and watch.
Protestant clergymen took the lead in founding the ivy-league colleges: Harvard (1636), Yale (1701), Princeton (1746), Dartmouth (1769). Between 1830 and 1860 U.S. Methodists founded 34 colleges, U.S. Baptists 21. Clergymen dominated the faculties, often the boards of trustees. By the mid-19th Century, many of these same clergymen...
Protestant Weakness No. 1. In last week's Christian Century, John Paul Williams, professor of religious literature and history at Mt. Holyoke, pointed to this clerical abdication as the No. 1 weakness of Protestantism. Wrote Teacher Williams...
¶ "This dodging of educational responsibility on the part of Protestant clergymen has had alarming results. . . . Less than half the Protestant children in the United States are even enrolled in religious schools. And the number is declining. . . .
When asked if the Commission would try to propagate Protestant analogues of Going My Way, etc., Heard answered: That is definitely one of our aims. . . . We will try to find a way to dramatize what the minister calls 'the Christian way of life.' "