Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determined to make her mark and spread her Calvinist faith. When she snagged the elderly Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, she planned a honeymoon of New Testament grandeur. The couple retraced St. Paul's path to Damascus, camped out for a month in imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux, and a few thousand choice acres of European soil...
...week as editor of the nondenominational magazine The Pulpit, defends his contemporaries. Says he: "The level of preaching in Protestant churches is higher than in the past." Squirming in the Pews. The standout preachers of the past, says the Rev. Walfred Erickson, of suburban Seattle's Clyde Hill Baptist Church, "had the ability to produce a temporary emotional excitement. Today congregations are not as interested in sensationalism." While yesterday's preacher was probably the best-educated man in his community, today's minister peers out over a congregation that may include a majority of college graduates...
...Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn). There was a hymn, a collection; then a Peruvian missionary announced that they would hear from "the man known all the world over as the Human Bible." In this setting, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham brought his "Crusade for Christ" to the Roman Catholic heartland of South America. No city on the continent trumpets its devotion to Catholicism more than Lima...
...Breathe Free (NBC, 4-4:30 p.m.). A documentary on the ministry of American Baptist missionaries and Chinese Baptists in Hong Kong...
...Tithers suddenly become concerned about people," says Episcopal Canon Richard Williams of Seattle. "The best tithing parishes are the softest touch for the traveling missionary." Sums up Dr. John Haldeman of Miami's Allapattah Baptist Church: "Sharing in the Lord's work-and I mean contributing time, talents and effort as well as money-is the greatest means of overcoming selfishness. The Scripture says: 'For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also...