Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, because "there is a general feeling of anti-institutionalism" among students. But beneath student skepticism, many campus clerics see evidence of a genuine but unformed faith. Although they encounter some convinced atheists, more often the doubter is like the University of Houston graduate student who told a Baptist chaplain that she "had hated God since she was six" because a minister told her that "God had taken" her father when he died. Now, says the Rev. DeWitt Baldwin of the University of Michigan, "the students say simply, 'I just don't know what to believe.' They...
...Negro. The residents there spurned more than $50,000 in federal cash, voted to raise their school tax to offset the deficit. "The Nigras," insists School Board Attorney J. D. Gordon Sr., "are well satisfied with their schools." Across town, a member of the leaderless Negro community, Baptist Minister M. D. Smith, agrees: "Everyone I know is perfectly satisfied with the present situation...
...wall of separation between Church and State" that Thomas Jefferson "contemplated with solemn reverence"? The answer is that the wall is still there, invulnerable as ever, but that reasonable men have found gates in it that can be opened, yet guarded. Says Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, himself a Baptist teacher: "Separation of church and state meant one thing when government and religion were at cross-purposes. It means something different when they have common purposes...
That Bogy. Some churchmen also wonder whether the churches' willingness to accept Government aid is progress at all. Particularly concerned are Baptists and conservative Lutherans, whose spiritual tradition strongly emphasizes absolute separation of religion and government. Although some Baptist colleges plan to apply for federal funds under the Higher Education Facilities Act, Baptists in Massachusetts have rejected public loans for hospital expansion under the Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act or for low-income housing under the National Housing Act. This summer, despite their sympathy for the aims of Project Head Start, they reluctantly decided not to participate directly, instead...
...nonviolent demonstrations. But he isn't quite so skilled at dispersing them-at least when they happen in his own church. Last week, for the second Sunday in a row, Cincinnati police were called out because of disorders during the services at Shuttlesworth's all-Negro Revelation Baptist Church. The troublemakers were not marauding whites, but a "Freedom Committee" of dissident church members who object to Shuttlesworth's "dictatorial" ways...