Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following Fey, who leaves in August to begin teaching at the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, is Managing Editor Kyle Haselden, 51, a former Baptist minister turned journalist. Haselden for his part plans to continue wading right in where controversy is the deepest. Says he: "We want not only to report what is happening, but to shape what ought to happen. We intend to be critical of the ecumenical movement from within the movement itself. We are not going to shoot arrows from Mount Olympus...
Providence Park Baptist Church...
They were awakened by "an awful din-stones and clubs began crashing through the windows." Then, recalled 58-year-old Ruth Hege, a Baptist missionary from Ohio, "the men found us. They pulled us through the house, onto the porch." Her companion, Fellow Missionary Irene Ferrel, 42, from Idaho, was killed by an arrow. "I feigned that I was dead," said Missionary Hege. "Young men kicked me or grabbed me by the hair. Once a man came up and put his hand on my chest to see if I was really dead. The Lord calmed...
...Mexican-American, Mann grew up speaking both English and a border-town pidgin Spanish called Tex-Mex. His father was a lawyer who "laid down very stern standards about ethics and the law in our house." The family code was backed by the austere beliefs of the Southern Baptist Church ("We didn't even play cards"). In high school, young Mann was chosen "most popular boy" in his senior year, scored well enough in his studies (all A's and B's), but is best remembered as a diminutive (138 Ibs.) quarterback who led Laredo...
...entire brigade of tough Arab legionnaires had been summoned to reinforce police and national guardsmen. But it soon proved not enough. On the 54-mile drive from Amman to Jerusalem, the Pope stopped on the banks of the Jordan, where Jesus had been baptized by John the Baptist. Photographers squirmed through the guarding cordons and jostled the Pope as he walked from his car to the river bank. Hovering over the scene, as a kind of airborne royal patrolman, was Hussein, at the controls of a Jordanian helicopter...