The oldest known creed in Christendom, the Apostles’ Creed is a faithful summary of what Christians believe and holds an unparalleled level of doctrinal authority, beginning with the statement, “I believe in God.” Those simple words contain the basis of the entire Christian faith. This article examines how the creed came to be written.
The Apostles’ Creed (The Hibbert Journal, 1966) Read More »
For the stat-minded among us who study the religions of New York City, this short magazine article from 1933 will illustrate how the various faiths were represented numerically in New York’s Sing Sing Prison:
One Buddhist and two [Muslims] were received within the gray walls of Sing Sing during the last fiscal year.
During the same period the doors of the great prison closed behind 855 Catholics, 518 Protestants, 177 Hebrews, twenty Christian Scientists and eight of no religion at all.
Click here to see a 1938 photo essay about life in Sing Sing Prison.
Click here to read more old magazine articles about religion.
Religions at Sing Sing Prison (Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
This is a review of one of the first movies to tell the story of Jesus, The King of Kings
Cecil B. DeMille’s reward for The King of Kings will be in heaven…
Click here to read about the 1922 discovery of King Tut’s tomb.
Christ is Big Box Office (The Literary Digest, 1927) Read More »
During the course of the Second World War, over 12,000 Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, and Jewish rabbis left the safety of home to join the Chaplain Corps – yet this short article explains that in August of 1941 there were only 994 Protestants, 318 Catholics and 18 Rabbis enrolled in the Chaplaincy. Five months later, with the Pearl Harbor attack, these numbers would begin their climb. The article was written to mark the introduction of the prefabricated chapels that the military would be adding to each of the camps that would soon be dotting the American landscape.
‘Religion In The Ranks” (Newsweek Magazine, 1941) Read More »
During the last decade of the Nineteenth Century a new Protestant faith was conceived in Kansas City, Missouri, that sought to reveal Christ’s love and it was called Unity:
Unity would be the last group in the world to seek or expect recognition for its trailblazing, pioneering religious techniques. Yet, many, many decades before the phrases ‘the power of positive thinking’ and ‘abundant living’ were heard in the land, Unity taught that God never meant this life to be a trial and a vale of tears, but, on the contrary,that it ‘is God’s will for man to be strong and vigorous and rich and successful and happy.
‘A Path Toward Personal Peace” (Pageant Magazine, 1957) Read More »
Here is a wonderful photo-essay that depicts the lives of one of the most pious communities in the United States: the Mennonites of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania:
The Biblical statement that God wished to ‘purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works’ [Titus 2:14] is followed literally by the Amish. They do everything possible to ensure their goodness and to make themselves different from ordinary men.
The Amish (Coronet Magazine, 1947) Read More »
Throughout the course of her life Lillian Roth (1910 – 1980) had lived the high life as well as the low, and during one of the darker moments she sat pining in the depths of her anguish crying out to God – even though she didn’t believe He existed – a well-wisher approached her with a unique line of reasoning that was so pure in its simplicity it immediately lead her to realize that God does indeed exist.
The Conversion of an Atheist (Coronet Magazine, 1955) Read More »
The sixth American to be granted the status of sainthood by the Catholic Church was a remarkable woman by the name Katharine Mary Drexel (1858 – 1955). Born into aristocratic circles in Philadelphia, she entered a convent at the age of 31. She is remembered for toiling unceasingly among America’s down-trodden while liberally dispersing her family fortune in the process:
In a period of some 60 years, she gave away $12 million. In doing so, she built 45 elementary schools, 12 high schools a university and countless country schools; she supported orphanages, hospitals and homes for the aged; she increased her congregation from its original 11 teaching nuns to over 500 at the time of her death in 1955.
The $tory Of A Nun (Coronet Magazine, 1964) Read More »
