Churches and Social Welfare (2 vols.). New York: National Council of Churches, 1955. The Activating Concern, Historical and Theological Bases (Vol. 1). By E. Theodore Bachman. 128 pp. $3.75. The Changing Scene, Current Trends and Issues(Vol. 2). By Horace Cayton

Social Work ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-121
Author(s):  
Luther E. Woodward
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
National Council ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Horace Cayton ◽  
National Council Of Churches

Assaulting the Citadel

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-143
Author(s):  
John W. Compton
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
National Council ◽  
Religious Support ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Council Of Churches

This chapter tells the story of how J. Howard Pew and a band of conservative activists attempted to infiltrate the National Council of Churches with the aim of undermining religious support for the welfare state. As with many odd pairings, financial considerations helped bring the parties together. The courtship began when the NCC’s architects hatched the idea of a National Lay Committee—a body of prominent laymen and women that would help the Council keep its finger on the pulse of lay opinion while also boosting the Council’s budget. From Pew’s perspective, the Lay Committee offered a potential backdoor into the citadel of the Social Gospel. The NCC needed money, and he was willing and able to supply it. In return, he asked only that the Council cease issuing pronouncements in favor of government aid to the less fortunate and instead transform itself into a champion of the free-enterprise system. The plan sounded simple enough on paper, yet it ultimately failed to accomplish its principal objective of prompting the NCC to abandon its commitment to a robust social welfare state. And, perhaps surprisingly, it was a group of prominent business leaders, not the alleged communists in the ranks of the clergy, who led the opposition to Pew’s short-lived Lay Committee.

Reflections on the Contemporary World Mission

1976 ◽  
Vol os-26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Eugene L. Stockwell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
National Council ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Personal Recollection ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
National Council Of Churches ◽  
World Mission

We come together today as a new Unit Committee of the Division of Overseas Ministries (DOM) at the beginning of the 1976–1978 triennium of the National Council of Churches. During this meeting, and in the months ahead, we will face important decisions which, given the magnitude of both the problems we confront and the resources we can tap, will be pressing and fateful. It would be foolish to exaggerate our role — there is very real sense in which our ecumenical vehicle is fragile and weak, far less influential on the world, national, ecclesiastical, scenes than we are prone to admit — but it would be folly as well to underrate the realistic and timely role we can assume in the exercise of the Christian stewardship expected of us in our day. Allow me to commence with a very personal recollection — perhaps unduly personal. Exactly fifty years ago this year – in 1926 — my father and mother sailed out of New York harbor bound for Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was three years old at the time and they took me along. They were setting out on an overseas ministry in the year of our nation's sesquicentennial though I doubt that they gave that fact much importance. I now look back on this ministry from the year of our nation's bicentennial and wonder at the immense changes in the context of mission and ministry between 1926 and 1976. My father was quite clear about one purpose in 1926, a clarity he never lost however unclear he might have felt in other areas of his work — he was determined to do what he could to train young men and women for the fulltime

Martin Luther King's Protesting Pastors

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Charles Teel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
National Council ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Nonviolent Resistance ◽  
National Council Of Churches ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Martin Luther King

AbstractMartin Luther King, Jr., led many of us to recognize that pilgrimages of the mind can take place in turmoil as well as in tranquility. My own journey to understanding the connection between the transcendent and social change was facilitated by King's call to “the Movement.” That journey was shared by countless other churchmen of the 1960's. I have engaged in extended conversations with hundreds of Christian clergy who responded to King's call and were arrested for their nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience. Structured interviews took place in settings as varied as a Selma parsonage, an Atlanta jail cell, a Midwestern farmhouse, a penthouse suite atop the National Council of Churches building in New York City, and a sharecropper's cabin in Philadelphia, Mississippi. What follows is an abridged “profile” of these men of the cloth. The profile sharply challenges some common stereotypes.

Why do Pastors Preach on Social Issues?

1975 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hart M. Nelsen ◽  
Samuel W. Blizzard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
National Council ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
National Council Of Churches ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary

Editor's note: The following article was prepared in honor of Samuel W. Blizzard, who, after a long and distinguished teaching career, is taking early retirement because of ill health. Since 1957, he has been Professor of Christianity and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, and since 1970, he has held the Maxwell M. Upson Professorship of Christianity and Society at Princeton. He has also taught at Pennsylvania State University and Union Theological Seminary in New York, as well as serving as the director of both the Russell Sage Foundation's Training for the Ministry Project from 1953 to 1960 and the National Council of Churches' Clergy Research Project from 1957 to 1958. He is the co-author with Emory J. Brown of The Church and the Community and has contributed essays and articles to more than forty books, scholarly journals, and popular periodicals. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Maryville College, he pursued graduate study at Biblical Seminary in New York, Princeton Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Hartford Seminary Foundation, and Cornell University, as well as post-graduate work at Mansfield College, Oxford University. Prior to entering academic life, he served Presbyterian parishes in Roselle, New Jersey, and Long Green and Ashland, Maryland. One of his students, Hart M. Nelsen, prepared this article utilizing Blizzard's highly influential study of clergy roles. Nelsen, a graduate of Occidental College, the University of Northern Iowa, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Vanderbilt University, is Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology at The Catholic University of America, as well as a member of the Boys Town Center, a research institute at Catholic University. He is the author of many articles in major sociological journals, the editor (with Raytha L. Yokley and Anne K. Nelsen) of The Black Church in America (1971) and author (with Anne K. Nelsen) of the forthcoming volume, The Black Church in the Sixties. The data for this article were collected under support from the National Institute of Mental Health (1 R01 MH 16573). His colleagues in the larger study are Raytha L. Yokley and Thomas W. Madron. Copyright © 1975 by Hart M. Nelsen

Messages of Sympathy

1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Council ◽  
The World

Telegrams and letters have poured into the New York Secretariat from all parts of the world. President Eugen Pusic and others close to the work of the Inter national Council on Social Welfare have also received many messages of sympathy. Miss Williams' colleagues and friends in the United States have expressed their sympathy in countless messages and calls. We reproduce here only those telegrams and letters that have come from Ruth Williams' colleagues in the international field.

Illegitimacy: Changing Services for Changing Times. New York: National Council on Illegitimacy (44 East 23rd Street), 1970, 98 pp., $3.25

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 795-796
Author(s):  
Ruth Sittler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
National Council ◽  
Professional Attitudes ◽  
Excellent Review ◽  
Vice Chairman ◽  
National Conference ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
23Rd Street

"Illegitimacy: Changing Services for Changing Times" is a collection of seven probing papers presented at the 1969 National Conference of Social Welfare. The foreword by Rose Mary Hill, Vice Chairman of the National Council, is an excellent review of "certain common threads that run through them, different though the papers may be in subject, content, and emphasis. Most striking perhaps is the willingness, indeed the determination on the part of a number of the authors, to examine and demolish some of the stereotypes that too long have dominated popular and even on occasion, professional attitudes toward illegitimacy."

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