Word: rev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rev. James Glisson, 33, was minister of the tiny Baptist church in McLemoresville (pop. about 300). Among the town's inhabitants was a stormy young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Casey. Their marriage was marked by continual quarreling, and, though they seldom attended his church, the Rev. Mr. Glisson offered them counsel and tried "to get them in the right relationship with God." Despite Glisson's efforts, the battling Caseys ended up in a divorce court...
...countersuit against his wife's case, Donald Casey charged that 23-year-old Martha Sue Casey had boasted of intimate relations with his father. When Martha Sue denied it, her lawyer called to the stand the only available witness-the Rev. Mr. Glisson. Had she ever admitted such an intimacy? Pastor Glisson refused to answer, and Martha Sue's lawyer withdrew the question. But Donald's lawyer insisted on an answer. Refusing again, Glisson was slapped with a $50 fine and a ten-day suspended jail sentence for contempt of court by Circuit Judge John F. Kizer...
...combatting something deep in the soul of the nation," said the Rev. William Sangster, head of home missions. "For this deep malady, we need some deep X-ray therapy that we have not found." Agnosticism, he complained, is flourishing in Britain in place of the great religious revival for which Methodists so fervently hoped. Last year the number of new Methodist church members (current membership: 739,000) fell to the lowest level in 13 years; some 100,000 children stopped attending Sunday schools. Every year, for the last twelve years, the total number of ministers has declined; it fell...
...most marrying and divorcing nation in Western Christendom? Last week this phenomenon absorbed some 1,000 delegates from six countries at the National Catholic Family Life Convention in Buffalo. The Rev. Lucius F. Cervantes, Jesuit sociologist at Denver's Regis College, blamed the American obsession with romantic love. "The American secular image of marriage and the family is schizoid in its romantic inability to face reality. Prudential consideration in the seeking of one's life partner, such as the desirability of similar backgrounds, interests and ideals, seems to these teenagers a mere censorious haggling of killjoy elders...
...nightgown, thrusts and twists about the stage in a wonderful pantomime of alternate abandon and frustration, finally offers herself to a stranger. "I don't care who he is as long as he is alone," she says, but she is rejected. The third incident has the Rev. Mr. Hartman (Donald Saddler) jaggedly convulsed before the vision of a woman dimly seen through a window. The fourth is a tautly controlled dance between mother (Ilona Murai) and son expressing in the pushing of a palm and the brush of a shoulder her mixed longing and desire to send him into...