Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VEGORS Pastor Bible Baptist Church Astoria, Oregon...
...Miami, 11,584 "messengers," as Southern Baptist voting delegates are called, met to represent 8,169,491 members of 29,899 churches in 30 states. They passed a record budget of $10 million for 1956 (up $800,000 over 1955) and elected the Rev. Dr. Caspar C. Warren of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C. as convention president. Under the eyes of a delegation of nine Baptists from the U.S.S.R., the convention passed a resolution to congratulate President Eisenhower for his "patient diplomatic conduct," urged a "more determined effort" at armament reduction and elimination of atomic, weapons...
...Atlantic City, some 10,000 delegates assembled for the 48th annual American Baptist Convention, fourth largest of the 26 Baptist groups in the U.S., with 6,000 churches and 1,600,000 members. They noted a building boom of Baptist churches unequaled since pioneer days, with at least half of their present churches carrying on building expansion programs, and $6,500,000 of their $8,000,000 building fund already raised. Unanimously the A.B.C. accepted the proposal of Southern Baptist Convention President Warren to participate with his group, together with the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. (Negro) and the National Baptist...
Standard Oil's founder, a good capitalist and good Baptist who took the long-range values for granted, might be somewhat puzzled by all the skyhook talk. John D. Rockefeller Sr. had put the matter more simply when he wrote: I was early taught to work as well as play...
Ecumenical Symbol. Dean Brauer's team has had its troubles in getting organized. In 1943 four separate theological schools merged on the campus of the University of Chicago to become the Federated Theological Faculty: the University of Chicago Divinity School (Baptist), the Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregationalist), the Meadville Theological School (Unitarian), and the Disciples of Christ Divinity House. The resulting pool of teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked...