Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is the "as" line for disgruntled second fiddles and for stars who take a quick look at the competition, then dive strategically for last place. Thus, by contractual agreement, ads for Bronston's King of Kings must end with the words "and ROBERT RYAN as John the Baptist...
...constantly brandishes a cane as if it were a weapon. A teetotaler and vegetarian, Menon, 64, dresses with Savile Row impeccability at the U.N.; at home in India, he wears a loose-fitting, collarless jibbah in which, says one Western observer, "he looks like Boris Karloff playing John the Baptist...
...Mass, the Protestant Reformation emphasized the preaching of God's word in sermons at the expense of sacramental worship. This emphasis was heightened in the U.S., argues Lutheran Brown, where "the development of Protestantism in the 18th and early 19th centuries was primarily that of the Methodist and Baptist kind of fervent expression of religion.'' Even in churches with strong liturgical traditions-such as the Lutherans and Episcopalians-hymns placed more emphasis upon individual piety than on praise of God. In church architecture, the pulpit replaced the altar as the focus of congregational interest...
Liturgy has brought significant changes to church architecture (TIME, Dec. 26, 1960). In Boston Unitarians are moving their pulpits from a central position to one side, placing the new focus on the Communion table. In Cincinnati's new Kenwood Baptist Church, a Communion table surmounted by a wooden Cross is at the center, with the pulpit off to one side. "This is unusual for Baptists," admits the pastor, the Rev. J. Stanley Mathews. "It's a move on our part to create a worship center and a dignified approach to worship." The First Baptist Church in Washington...
...money, the churches often assumed that "God will take care of it." Typical is two-year Butler College in Tyler, Texas, which hit a peak of 500 students in the early 1950s. Now it is down to 80 students, a faculty of nine and no endowment. Last spring the Baptist-related school lost accreditation, and its survival is indeed...