Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting, a cram course in what Catholicism believes; the particular credo of the Southern Baptists is perhaps less familiar. The old notions - the Bible belt, temperance leagues, hellfire evangelism and fundamentalism-are still part of the Southern Baptist scheme of things, but they are growing increasingly oldfashioned. Aside from the obvious issue of racial integration. Southern Baptists differ from their Northern brethren mainly in that 1) they are more distrustful of ecumenical movements, are reluctant to join any other Christian denomination for any purpose, 2) they tend to favor closed Communion for 'those of like faith and order" rather...
...WALLIE CRISWELL, 50, pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church, the world's biggest,* with 12,000 members. A skilled evangelist who began preaching at 17, practices closed Communion and opposes dancing, Criswell is strongly anti-Kennedy, calls Catholicism a "political system that, like an octopus, covers the entire world and threatens our basic freedoms." He also condemns integration: "We'll all stand together in judgment before the Lord, but I think we can worship better our separate ways...
Congratulations to TIME for reporting the sounding brass festival at the Mayflower Hotel without throwing up. It is a sorry and desperate cause that will drive a Baptist like Poling into the same bed with the kindly apostle of Confident Living. One might have guessed that the faith of neither would stand in the way of their common Republicanism...
...suggest that Norman Vincent Peale take a trip to Texas and have himself totally immersed by his Baptist brethren-say for ten minutes...
...Moments. An anthropologist's job is especially tough in northern Haiti. Many grown Haitians there have never seen a white man. Afro-Haitian (voodoo) gods sometimes command their worshipers to remove strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. But mustachioed Paul Barker, a former merchant seaman, chemist and Baptist minister, somehow managed to get along. On the northern seacoast near Port Paix, a local landowner and amateur ethnologist-who is also a voodoo potentate-helped Barker excavate the townsite where the gold pendants were found. Tense moments came when it was reported that the god Dambala had ordered Barker...