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Of all the controversial subjects that divide Christendom, one of the most divisive is church unity. Two months ago, John D. Rockefeller Jr. made a well-intentioned plea for church unity (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week, as it must to all such pleas, came a stern rebuke. "Shocking," said Long...
Bishop De Wolfe's doctrinal dander rose when the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and the Protestant Council of New York City distributed 300,000 copies of a pamphlet containing the Rockefeller speech. In a pastoral letter published in the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, he...
Today's citizens love to ask themselves loaded questions-and then let bystanders pick up the pieces. Christians are no exception. One of their favorites is: "What is wrong with the Christian church today?" Put to 100 clergymen and laymen (mostly Protestant) throughout the U.S., this high-explosive question...
In ragged sum, these church critics seemed to feel that the church should shed its parochialism, actually practice brotherhood, instead of merely preaching it, and concern itself with human life rather than with doctrines. Dean John M. Atwood, of St. Lawrence University's Theological School, Canton, N.Y., summed up...
If the churches make a dent on San Francisco, it will be because they have studied the problems of peace with unaccustomed realism. Last week John Foster Dulles, spokesman for the Protestant crusaders, summed up their view: "This time it is of the utmost importance that we be realistic. We...