Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson's disappointment, Moyers at first bypassed a Washington career, spent a year as a Rotary fellow at Scotland's University of Edinburgh. Then he announced that he had been called by God, returned to Fort Worth's Baptist seminary, and in 1959 was ordained. Only a few months later, at Johnson's urging, Moyers finally went to Washington, where the Senator began to lean heavily on him as a speechwriter and all-round political handyman...
...Alabama's Democratic Party, said: "America has been on a drunken spree of hate, and we in Alabama share the blame." Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon pleaded with U.S. citizens to "pledge ourselves to fight this tendency of hatred and violence." And Dr. James R. Allen, a Baptist minister in Dallas, said from his Thanksgiving Day pulpit that Kennedy's death was triggered by just one "element in our city" but that the "white heat of a hate-filled atmosphere allowed the necessary warmth for this element to crawl out from under the rocks to be seen...
...pickets were objecting to Lovett's whites-only admission policy, which pits the practice of some wealthy supporters of the church squarely against the desegregationist preaching of their bishops. Atlanta's crusading Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist, raised the issue last February, when he asked the school to admit his son. The school said no to him, and later to two Negro children from Episcopal families. The ground for rejection was purely racial, and the arguments have been echoing across Atlanta ever since...
When the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., accepted a call to a bigger parish in Texas last winter, the seven laymen on the pulpit committee had to find a new preacher. It was not easy. During the next nine months, First Baptist's committeemen checked out more than 100 prospects in 16 states, spent three Sundays out of four listening to sermons of possible candidates, traveled as far as Texas and Florida before deciding on the Rev. J. T. Ford of Atlanta's Wieuca Road Baptist Church. Last week, after weighing the committee...
...itinerant frontier preacher have so many Protestant ministers been afflicted with wanderlust, and for many churches the problem of replacing a departed pastor is infinitely more pressing than what to do about integration or support for the missions. In Houston, 40 of the city's 187 Baptist churches have changed pastors during the past year, and about 10% of the 1,500 Congregational churches in New England are now without a fulltime minister. In Winston-Salem, N.C., the First Presbyterian Church spent 13 months looking for the right man; one committeeman traveled 12,000 miles on scouting expeditions...