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James Cooper (1846–1922) was a Church of Scotland minister and church historian. [1] In 1917 he attained the highest position in the Church of Scotland as Moderator of the General Assembly. He was a prolific author on religious topics and strong advocate of the reunion of the various schisms of the Scottish church.
A class reunion is a meeting of former classmates, often organized at or near their former high school or college. It is scheduled near an anniversary of their graduation, e.g. every 5 or 10 years. It is scheduled near an anniversary of their graduation, e.g. every 5 or 10 years.
A Congregational minister, Ockenga served for many years as pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also a prolific author on biblical, theological, and devotional topics. Ockenga helped to found the Fuller Theological Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, as well as the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE).
Sermon on the Mound" is the name given by the Scottish press to an address made by British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on Saturday, 21 May 1988. [1] This speech, which laid out the relationship between her religious and political thinking, proved highly controversial.
Pope John "solemnly inaugurated" the council with this speech on October 11, 1962. In the speech, addressed to "a vast assembly" of over 2000 bishops, [1] he rejected the thoughts of "prophets of doom who are always forecasting disaster" in the world and in the future of the Church. He exhorted the Council Fathers "to make use of the medicine ...
For several weeks in early 1990, Quigley students and alumni picketed the archbishop's residence in Chicago to protest the closings. [35] [36] A group bought a full-page ad in the Chicago Sun-Times opposing the actions, [37] The Order of St. Augustine purchased the Quigley South campus from the archdiocese for St. Rita of Cascia High School.
Alexander Crummell (March 3, 1819 – September 10, 1898) was an American minister and academic. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in the United States, Crummell went to England in the late 1840s to raise money for his church by lecturing about American slavery.
The sermon was not always viewed in a favorable light by leaders of the LDS Church [6] or other denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement. It was not published in the LDS Church's 1912 History of the Church because of then-church president Joseph F. Smith's discomfort with some ideas in the sermon popularized by the editor of the project, B. H. Roberts of the First Council of the Seventy. [7]