Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyeing the things that are God's as a source of needed revenue. In Minneapolis, for example, the city assessor is trying to get $1,120 in back taxes from a bowling alley operated by a Roman Catholic parish. After the threat of a court fight, the American Baptist Convention recently agreed to pay Upper Merion township, Pennsylvania, $18,000 a year in assessments on its property there...
...nine-block downtown mall. At least 15 Pomona churches plan to use it during Holy Week and Easter services, and some clergymen are treating it like a new Gospel. "It has a tremendous wallop and it just wrings you out," says Dr. Edward Cole of the First Baptist Church. "The first time I heard it I had to get up from my chair twice and look the other way while I fought back tears. It really bugged...
None of these attacks, however, has been directed against the Corps' program. The opponents have been content to criticize Powell for employing his own assistant, for serving as incorporator, and for renting the Powell Center (the back half of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, of which Powell is rector...
...Baptist-founded Baylor is going to lose Baker, even if he is its main claim to academic fame. Man and school have fallen out in a dispute that started in December, when Baker's T 70-seat Baylor Theater staged Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. To one performance came some church-sponsored teen-age girls. Grownups accompanying them were shocked at O'Neill's dialogue-no four-letter words, but a drizzle of expletives such as "goddam whore!" When they protested, Baylor's President Abner McCall ordered Baker...
Baker had cut profanity from earlier plays, but this time he refused; for one thing, O'Neill's widow, in authorizing the production, had stipulated that no cuts be made. McCall closed the play and 190 Baptist ministers all over Texas gave him a rousing vote of support. Baker stewed for a couple of months, and then resigned as of the school year's end. "We didn't know what we would be faced with once this kind of censorship set in," he explained. With him went not only his wife, who has taught math...