Word: antioch
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...native of New Orleans, instigated the party, his second Mardi Gras Ball in two years. Over Christmas vacation, he said yesterday, he and friends of his in New Orleans organized the party's plans. As a result, over 20 different schools were represented, including Yale, Columbia, Annapolis, Antioch, Vassar, Smith, and Skidmore. The theme of the party was "levez fenfer," which followed the raising of the rugs...
GORDON A. FELLMAN 4G is a Teaching Fellow in Social Relations. A graduate of Antioch College, he is currently preparing a thesis for the Ph.D. in Sociology. He has been closely associated with a number of groups seeking equality for Negroes...
...city's outer wall and then let down in a basket to make his way safely to Jerusalem and his first meeting with Peter and James. Soon he returned to his home town, Tarsus, where he stayed for about a decade until Barnabas brought him to Antioch and the real beginning of his career...
...first journey Barnabas and Paul left Antioch together to carry the Gospel to other cities of the Greek world. At Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, they were invited to preach before the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus, whose court magician set to heckling the two missionaries. At that, Paul turned on the man and denounced him so eloquently that Proconsul Paulus was converted, and his magician, according to Acts, went blind. After that encounter, Paul seems to have changed his name to its Roman form and become leader of the mission; the author of Acts begins to refer to Paul...
...visit to Antioch, Peter (prodded by James) withdrew from the table that Paul shared with Gentile converts. The incident, with its implication that his Gentile converts were second-class Christians, prompted one of Paul's bursts of anger. "I withstood [Peter] to the face," he writes in Galatians 2:11, "because he was to be blamed...