Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assailing "the childlike radio broadcast of the average Protestant group," the United States Baptist editorialized that "the Protestant message and program is gradually becoming a sort of laughing matter in this country. It is surprising that radio stations continue to accept most of the programs offered-even for pay. Baptists are no exception...
...United States Baptist editorial urged both Northern and Southern Baptists "to set up well-organized and amply financed radio departments." This is also the solution suggested by the Chicago survey, which thinks the national churches themselves should produce and sponsor network broadcasts that would utilize to the hilt the techniques of such successful programs as Town Meeting of the Air, the Music Appreciation Hour, and Cavalcade of America, develop also some new techniques of their...
...good showman. He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. After a year in theological seminary, he stepped into a ready-made job as assistant pastor of his father's Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose 14,000 members are the largest Protestant congregation in the world...
...poetry corner John Malcolm Brinnin's "John the Baptist" stands out as the most original and forceful. Technically modern, yet with a stability and poise which characterizes too little Advocate poetry, this piece achieves a balance between the verbose complexities of Dunstan Thompson and the simple triteness of Bruce Phemister whose poems also appear in this issue. Not to be forgotten is Robert Hillyer's "Fantasy," a bit of skillfully unimportant frou-frou, but delightful...
...Baptist. Dr. William A. Elliott, President of the Northern Baptist Convention: "Now that the Japanese have struck us under the belt...there is but one opinion among us. The struggle must be won for democracy, and Baptist ministers...