Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many scholars, moreover, think that ecumenical experimentation has just begun. Dr. Lynn Leavenworth, director of theological education for the American Baptists, last November proposed a consolidation of Protestant-and even Catholic-seminary resources. "It makes no sense," he said, "to have Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian seminaries. I am looking for the day when seminary graduates will no longer be headed for this or that church's work...
...with the state of the United Ministry. "I think the religious doubts start in high school, long before students get here," speculates the Rev. Rene O. Bideaux of the Methodist Church, "They have them when they get off the bus." The Rev. Ernst E. Klein of the Baptist Church claims that "many students will not give us a chance because they are running from the Baptist Church in Pumpkin Corners. Iowa...
Having a friend in the White House does not spare Davis from criticism by other clergymen. Martin Luther King's Washington spokesman, Baptist Minister Walter E. Fauntroy, says: "Davis is the most reactionary minister we have." The Disciples' civil rights leader, the Rev. Barton Hunter of Indianapolis, considers Davis "a source of very great embarrassment to the Brotherhood...
...Held by the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, a Presbyterian, during the Eisenhower years and Baptist Minister Edward Hughes Pruden under Truman. John Kennedy, when in Washington, attended Sunday Mass at a number of different churches, including Georgetown's Holy Trinity and St. Matthew's Cathedral...
Mark Odom Hatfield is a lay preacher of the fundamentalist Baptist Church, a teetotaling former university dean (Willamette) who gave up smoking because he did not want to lead his students into temptation. Hatfield has since adopted a habit that is a lot harder to forsake: running for public office. At 43, he has won five consecutive contests for assorted posts as a Republican in normally Democratic Oregon, is just finishing off his second four-year term as Governor. Since he was barred by Oregon's constitution from seeking a third successive term, Hatfield obviously had to find another...