Word: tribalization
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...Tribal God. But when Dr. Tittle's Committee on State of the Church tried to have this pacifist declaration reaffirmed last week, 17 of the 74 committee members balked. Led by a layman and World War I veteran, Lawyer Charles C. Parlin, of Englewood, N.J., the dissidents drew up a minority report, placing the Church squarely behind the war, took their report to the Conference floor for a showdown...
Said Dr. Tittle: "We do not think that a Christian should pray for victory. . . . It is a tribal God to which men have prayed in history for military victory, not the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ...
Only when he departed for new duty in the Middle East did he reveal his secret. He had been getting his dope from his batman, a coal black Xosa named Filemon. Filemon had been a tribal weather prophet of renown. He had joined the army only after an embarrassment involving a long-range weather forecast, a perversely unexpected dry spell, and his tribe's 1940 corn crop...
...Four years later he died. In 1892 the British Government was assessed for resultant damages, agreed to pay ?11,420 in 30 to 50 years. Last week British justice was done; Britain's House of Commons was told the time had come to put up the money. Nigerian tribal chiefs will decide who gets...
Four of these men, when asked for their opinions on the institution they had entered recently, gave it their hearty endorsement. Knight disagreed with the widely held belief that it is a revolting tribal custom. He said it deserved nothing but praise, had made him a better...