Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, who votes against everything including the appropriation for the Dallas Federal Building. In 1960, 60 percent of Dallas voted for Nixon, 40 for Kennedy. More significantly a large volume of anti-Catholic literature was circulated. A week before the campaign's close, a sermon by Baptist Minister W. A. Criswell appeared on the front-page of the News; it attacked Catholicism. A number of rightists (including General Edwin Walker and H.L. Hunt) live in Dallas. Oilman Hunt publishes the hate-filled American Mercury, the one-time mouthpiece of H. L. Mencken. In addition, he sponsors...
...movement toward union with Catholicism; it stands opposed to the "liberalism" and ecumenical spirit of the leaders of the mainstream Protestant denominations in the National Council of Churches. "Conservatism holds to the necessity of recognizing an absolute deity," says the Rev. Curtis Nims of San Francisco's First Baptist Church. "The conservative accepts the Bible as the authoritative rule of faith and practice. The corporeal Resurrection and the Virgin Birth are firm parts of conservative doctrine." In theology, according to Dr. Roger Nicole of Massachusetts' Gordon Divinity School, the new conservatism does not favor "the evasion...
...Lyndon Johnson's church, the Disciples of Christ; about half of their churches (but not Johnson's) belong to the conservative North American Christian Convention, which could, in a matter of years, formally break away from the parent body. In Oakland, Calif., 18 months ago, the Melrose Baptist Church withdrew from the American Baptist Convention in protest against the ecumenical outlook of the denomination's leaders and the kind of theology taught at Eastern Baptist seminaries...
Toward Maturity. "Basically, there is a conservative group in practically every congregation and every seminary and every Christian organization today," says Dr. Earl Kalland, faculty dean of Denver's Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary. Critics of evangelical conservatism charge that the real sources of its strength are desire for the sustenance of a simplified faith in an age of turmoil, wistful yearning for the good old days when Protestantism was in fact if not in name the American established church. Conservatives answer that they express the general belief of U.S. Protestants, who are indifferent to the complex insights of modern...
...York's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, walked jauntily away from the Sunday service. Then he spotted a CBS mobile television unit taping reactions to the death of President Kennedy. Never anx ious to avoid exposure, Powell rushed over to shake hands and offer his own comments on the assassination. To his surprise, he wound up the final hand shake holding not a microphone but a summons to appear in criminal court. A process server, sure that a shot at publicity would lure the Congressman, had quietly joined...