Word: baptiste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...RAMSEY POLLARD, 57, current president of the Southern Baptist Convention, recently made news for his outspoken stand against a Roman Catholic President. A graduate of Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fundamentalist Pollard is minister of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn. (membership: 9,000). He feels that though integration problems cannot be "solved overnight, every man ought to treat his fellow man with dignity and love...
...JAMES D. GREY, 53, New Jersey-born head of the $1,625,000 First Baptist Church of New Orleans since 1937, was the youngest president of the Southern Baptist Convention when he was elected in 1951 and 1952. He is a member of the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance, vetoes dancing but smokes cigars. When Negroes come to his church, he lets them stay but on occasion labels their "kneel-ins" provocative and "an exhibition of egotism." A fundamentalist and evangelist who complains that the modern church microphone is "a gadget of the devil, it's bugging...
...THEODORE FLOYD ADAMS, 62, president of the Baptist World Alliance (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1955), has been pastor of Richmond's First Baptist Church since 1936 and has seen his congregation rise from 1,600 members to 4,100. Regarded as perhaps the Baptists' most distinguished preacher, Adams is firmly on record as opposed to segregation...
...CARLYLE MARNEY, 44, fiery minister of the Charlotte (N.C.) Myers Park Baptist Church, practices open Communion and has fought segregation for years. He tells businessmen that "the profit motive is ethically bankrupt." A staunch believer in church-state separation, he wants religious teaching banned from all schools, nevertheless dubs religious opposition to Kennedy "prejudice," and slaps Baptist extremists as "Holy Roller Catholics who are creating an emotional authoritarianism which is far more rigid than Roman Catholicism...
...agreement or disagreement, these ministers, like thousands more throughout the South, Southwest, and even in a few Northern enclaves, are all members in good standing of the Southern Baptist Convention...