Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bull Johnson was the only freshman on the college debate team - and he was so good at debating that he teamed up with Senior Elmer Graham, now a retired Baptist minister, to win the state championship by whipping Sam Houston State Teachers, which had won 68 out of its past 75 debates. Greene, who coached the team, recalls: "We arranged so that Lyndon would have the final word. Well, when he got through they didn't have a cockeyed point standing, he just drew that string around their necks so slick." One of the big debate topics that year...
Since the death last October of the Very Rev. John Baptist Janssens, the world's 36,000 mostly competent, disciplined and obedient Jesuits have had no monarch. This week 224 priestly delegates from the Roman Catholic Church's most influential order are meeting in Rome to choose their 28th Father General and to discuss ways of applying the Vatican Council's spirit of renewal to the remarkable company of men founded 431 years ago by St. Ignatius Loyola of Spain...
...they say. This kind of witness most often produces converts to new, small and struggling churches, whose members have a natural zeal to bring in people to share both the burden and the joy. The conversion success of the Mormons (a 7.7% growth rate last year) and the Southern Baptists (374,418 baptisms in 1964) may be due partly to their custom of spawning churchlets as rapidly as possible. Says Dr. Glen E. Braswell of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, which has organized 100 new churches in the past ten years: "Where the American Baptists may have one large church...
...steered clear of civil rights demonstrations. But last week, he started the first phase of a major crusade to see whether his gospel message-that men must love God before they can love one another-can ease some of the racial tension in the South. "As a Southerner," says Baptist Billy, "I may have a little more influence than a man with a New England accent...
...Billy will conduct a ten-day crusade in Montgomery in June. During October, he will crusade in Waco and Houston. Striving to accept speaking engagements in parts of the South where he has seldom before preached, he has juggled his schedule to fit in a speech to the Mississippi Baptist Convention. "I want to stay in touch with those fellows," he says...