Life With Father Today (March 1958 Sermon of the Month): An Address Delivered on January 5, 1958 by The Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman, Minister, First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles

Fritchman, Rev. Stephen H. [Hole]

Edité par First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1958

A propos de cet article

Please note: this sermon is *not* reprinted in the Rev. Fritchman's posthumous collection of sermons and addresses entitled "For the Sake of Clarity." Offered is "Life With Father Today," the text of a sermon given on January 5, 1958 by the Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman and published in mimeographed print form as the Sermon of the Month for March 1958 by the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. A stapled pamphlet which, when opened, measures 8-1/2" by 14" and contains six pages of text. A few brief excerpts from the Rev. Fritchman's address to his congregation: "Our cultural media portray, sometimes accurately, sometimes with cruel and savage satire, the father of our modern family. You have seen him in 'The Life of Riley,' in 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,' in 'Make Room for Daddy,' and the collective portrait is a most unflattering one of a man who is little more than a bumbling, overgrown adolescent. In these portrayals father is a profitable boarding guest, a tolerated domestic accessory" - "From family dictator in the plush-furnished home of 1890 father has become a feeble Pretender in 1958. In many homes children are veritable orphans or half-orphans. Father is an absentee parent earning a living, perhaps working in community organizations, too tired when he comes home to do more than eat his dinner, sit transfixed before a television screen or fall into bed with the briefest of comments or courtesies to wife or children" - "I am trying to say this morning that the deposed king of the nineteenth-century home should become a real, adequate comrade in the home with his wife and his children, adequate in play and work, in serious and light hours, in planning and in problem solving. A new image of father is more needed in our culture than a new missile, or a new station wagon or some added fringe benefits in this year's contract." Previously, but lightly, folded; light sunning to edges. The REVEREND STEPHEN H. [HOLE] FRITCHMAN (1902-1981), author, liberal humanist, and social and antiwar activist, was the minister of the progressive First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, California, from 1948 to 1969.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Life With Father Today (March 1958 Sermon of the Month): An Address Delivered on January 5, 1958 by The Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman, Minister, First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles
• Éditeur: First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Date de parution: 1958
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Stapled Wraps
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Radical and Progressive
  • Religion: Christianity
  • Philosophy and Sociology