Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Black Death swept England in 1348, it was the Nottingham alabaster men who supplied the new-found piety of the survivors with miniature bas-reliefs and statuettes of the Passion, Thomas à Becket, the lives of the saints, and the bleeding head of John the Baptist (see cut). The panels were carved from soft, creamy alabaster quarried at Tutbury and Chellaston Hill, then were painted, gilded, and generally built into wooden boxes with hinged doors for private worshipers to part...
...what would happen. The reaction was immediate. Within seven days 5,000 listeners had written KQW. Said one: "My hope and prayer is that God will have mercy on [Scott] and [KQW] for your disbelief." Said another: "This is unconstitutional and should be discontinued." Members of the Southern Baptist Church of Modesto, Calif, voted a protest. Yet 24% of the letter writers, while mostly disagreeing with Scott's irreligion, commended the station for letting him speak his mind. A Congregational minister expressed their views: "It is good for any institution to be under healthful criticism, including the church...
...Messa." In the nearby town of Varese lived the Rev. Giovanni Battista Schreider, a serious, bald, bespectacled Baptist minister. When he heard of the state of affairs at Caravate, he put in an urgent call for his friend Angelo Messa, an elder of the Baptist Church in Milan.* Both hastened to Caravate, arrived to find a crowd milling around the main square. From a balcony above their heads Pastor Schreider blasted the papal system, offered the "true faith which does not need external manifestations to assert itself." The crowd cheered. Many said they were ready to turn Protestant...
Highlighting the meeting were addresses by Douglass Cater '46 and Ewald Mann, former professor of the philosophy of religion in the Estonian Baptist Seminary. Cater reported to the assemblage on the conference of the International Union of Students at Prague last summer...
...blame? The conferees thought they knew the answer. Said Cleveland's Rev. Dores R. Sharpe, Baptist minister, ardent crusader for reform: "John Doe, private citizen, is the real culprit in this shame of democracy...