Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel H. Miller, Lecturer on Pastoral Theology and Minister at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, will head the mental health program at Harvard. Among the theologians, ministers, psychiatrists and others who are expected to help supervise the project are the Rev. Paul J. Tillich, University Professor and world-renowned theologian; Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University's health services; Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology; and the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Memorial Hall preacher...
...certain town the Baptist church was destroyed by fire on a Friday night. At once a Catholic fraternal organization offered the use of its hall to the Baptist congregation for Sunday services, and the offer was gratefully accepted. What is to be said of the procedure adopted by the Catholic organization...
...Reverend Thomas Hiscox was painted by a New World follower of Smibert, named Robert Feke. A devout Baptist, Feke portrayed the Baptist minister with the utmost simplicity and force. Hiscox stands above the viewer, as in a pulpit. Though the minister's hair has a certain flowing grace, the rest of him does not. He looks like a bullfrog. The powerful throat seems to be preparing its organ tones; the wide, traplike mouth is about to open. Meanwhile, the brilliantly modeled eyes focus with disdain upon someone in the back row−whether a sinner or a sneezer...
...crowded streets and candle-gleaming churches of Chicago and New York City, the Feast of St. John the Baptist was celebrated in high style last week. There were heaps of lechón asado (roast pig) and pasteles (meat cakes wrapped in plantain leaves). Blindfolded children laughingly broke piñatas, whacking away with sticks at the hanging earthenware pots that might contain candy or water; music vibrated whole city blocks, and there were dozens of mambo, cha-cha and rumba contests. For San Juan is the patron saint of the island of Puerto Rico, and the Roman Catholic Church...
...Fellowship for Social Justice of the American Unitarian Association, meeting in Boston, awarded its Holmes Weatherly Award for contributions to social progress to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and leader of the Negro bus boycott in Montgomery...