Liberalism in religion came in for some harsh words last week. In Chicago's Hotel La Salle, for the first convention of the National Association of Evangelicals for United Action, nearly 1,000 conservatives and fundamentalists gathered from all parts of the U.S. Some belonged to the big Protestant denominations, others to smaller groups such as the Free Methodists, Sixth Principle Baptists, Assemblies of God.
Urging delegates to "think deeply or be damned," young Congregationalist Dr. Harold J. Ockenga, Association president and pastor of Boston's big Park Street Church (TIME, April 5), led off with an exhortation on literal v. liberal Christianity, passed naturally...
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