Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, the Governor took a holiday. In the morning the Stassens went for a long hike along the Mississippi; at night to Good Friday services at Riverview Baptist Church...
...momentarily detached but still potent factor in these doings is Poet-Politician Kanellopoulos. He has the burning zeal and energy of a John the Baptist, and to some he looms as a promising leader of the New Europe. By his resignation and his refusal to rejoin the new government, he has shrewdly strengthened his own position, in that he publicly disavows responsibility for the acts of Tsouderos & Co. Panayotis Kanellopoulos is backing his conviction that the liberated European nations will choose their postwar leaders from those who opposed the miserable past and personify a better future...
Forward-Sliding Baptist. While a sophomore at Colgate, "Fuzzy" Fosdick wrote home to his parents in Buffalo (his father was a high-school principal): "I am throwing over my old idea of the universe. I am building another-and leaving God out." But God did not stay out. When Fuzzy graduated (as class poet, cheer leader, winner of five major prizes), he went to Manhattan's liberal Union Theological Seminary, then to a Baptist pastorate in Montclair...
...church, retired each morning to an office building to write his sermons, wrote with a vigorous accent that attracted big congregations. During World War I he went overseas with the Y.M.C.A., helped to stir up war sentiment as a lecturer for the British Ministry of Information. After the war, Baptist Fosdick was called to Manhattan's rich, influential First Presbyterian Church...
John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered him the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Fosdick turned the offer down. Said he jokingly: "For one thing, you're too wealthy." Rockefeller replied: "Do you think that more people will criticize you on account of my wealth than will criticize me on account of your heresy?" Fosdick took the job, with four stipulations: 1) immersion was not to be required; 2) all believers in Jesus were to be acceptable as members; 3) a new, larger church would be built uptown; 4) the minister's salary was not to exceed...