Word: safran
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...finally I came across three pages which lifted my feeling of despair. TIME'S Religion department assures me that there is still reason to hope. Methodist Pastor Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
...John Safran's dismissal [TIME, July 1] take place in these United States of America . . . ? Surely "Christian America" would not countenance a man's dismissal simply because he dared to discuss racial tolerance and equality-or perhaps our category of "self-evident truths" no longer contains the clause that "all men are created equal...
...except when by being so I might hurt the feelings of a first-rate citizen. I will be particularly careful to say nothing that will bring disgrace on the Pastoral Relations Committee, and glory and a future in the hinterlands on myself, as did my unfortunate predecessor, Pastor John Safran...
Last week Pastor Safran was assigned to a new post-in a rural community...
...John Safran had come a long way to the job he had just lost. For twelve years a Detroit attorney (ten years in U.A.W. Lawyer Maurice Sugar's office), he abandoned the law in 1943 to study for the ministry. Only last June, at the age of 37, he was ordained and appointed to Marysville's single Protestant church...