Better Questions
> | THE second Christian Questjon-Box ) was better than the first, because the | questions were more fundamental. The | Panel only really dodged one of them, | on which the questioner obviously hoped ) for a discussion of Moral Re-armament. On the others: the doctrine of atone- | ment, the duty of a New Zealand | Christian towards poverty overseas, and commercial money-raising, they spoke freely and with considerable unanimity. The latter may, have been the synthetic product: of the questions, on) none of which is there much denominational difference, so long as they are kept to general terms. A little spice of disagreement would have been welcome. As it was, the listener might almost have cohcluded that ‘the only real distinction between the churches lies in their voices -neither the Anglican, the Methodist, nor the Presbyterian could possibly have been anything else. Father Agnellus Andrew was an exception. A Roman Catholic priest with a BBC voice slightly tinged with Scots, seems an anomaly to a New Zealander. Anomaly or not, his power of going succinctly to the heart of a matter had him stating a theme to which the others provided footnotes. As a Presbyterian, I draw no conclusions from this.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 22
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197Better Questions New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 22
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