Word: sockman
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...Theologian Karl Earth lecturing on evangelical theology. McCracken's current bestseller: the world-traveling Orphans' Choir from Korea. He recently started another record club, which will feature long-play sermons by Christian leaders such as Baptist Billy Graham, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, and Dr. Ralph Sockman, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Methodist Christ Church...
Ralph Washington Sockman moved from his one-room country schoolhouse to Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and the nickname of "Octopus" for his numerous activities. He courted Zellah Endly, violin-playing daughter of a Methodist minister, and married her in 1916. When at 27 he became pastor of what was then called the Madison Avenue Methodist...
Episcopal Church, the aging congregation and "disintegrating" neighborhood gave the church a life expectancy of five years. Sockman built up a new, young congregation; real estate breaks reversed the neighborhood's disintegration. When the congregation sold the church in 1929 to move to Park Avenue, the 90-ft. by 100-ft. plot brought...
...Shot in the Head. Preaching has always been Ralph Sockman's special ministry; he is generally acknowledged as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S. He is one of the alltime veterans of the air waves; for 33 years his voice has been heard on the National Radio Pulpit at 10 a.m. Sundays. Shunning the emotionalism of Evangelist Billy Graham, his lucid sermons - many of them published in his 20-odd books - are designed to teach as well as inspire. "You've got to put something in people's heads," he told a friend last week, "rather...
...Sockman is much concerned with the decline of preaching in the churches today, and plans to spend much of his retirement visiting seminaries to stimulate interest in the pulpit among fledgling ministers preoccupied with pastoral counseling and group activities. Says he: "The churches today are better organized than they are pulpitized. The greatest need of the contemporary church is the strengthening of the local pulpits. I just happen to think that there's more need for strong preaching than for administration...