Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underlying question with every ex-chaplain was how to put his war-widened experience to account. Last fall, Baptist Dr. Alfred Carpenter made a two-month, 33,000-mile tour of U.S. chaplaincies from Casablanca to Japan, Korea and the Pacific for the Navy. On his return, he said...
...critic groaned. "Now The Gauntlet" said the Devil, warming up, "is about Baptists. Who but me, with my intense interest in religion, would ever read about Baptists except in a novel? This one takes you right into a Baptist seminary, shows you the callowness, the shallowness, the dingy personal problems of the young men who will become fishers of souls. It takes you into a small Baptist church in a small Missouri town, shows you the political shenanigans, the scandalous gossip, the social going-over every minister and his wife have to take. Even I learned something from...
...pronounce the word Baptist like an Anglo-Catholic." said the critic...
...Quite unintentional," said the Devil. "I have no religious prejudices. When The Gauntlet opens, this Wingo is studying at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has married 'a tiny, merry raindrop of a girl' who has bobbed hair (it is 1923) and insists on being called Kathie instead of Katherine. She is also pregnant, and the Reverend Wingo is wondering where he is going to get the money for the delivery. So he goes to his friend, the Reverend Page Musselwhite, and tells him: 'I want to find Truth. It seems to me that at times...
...Baptist Harry Truman was all set to receive an honorary LL.D. degree from Baptist Baylor University, of Waco, Tex. But from the Texas Baptist General Convention in Forth Worth last week came 4,500 "nays." Said the chairman of the convention's Civic Righteousness Committee in explanation: "No Baptist school should confer a degree on a man who likes his poker and drinks his bourbon. I know that we all agree that no man-even the President of the United States-could be a good Baptist and drink his liquor...