Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your story of the Shakers reminded me of an account of a Shakers' meeting in the memoirs of my late father-in-law, when he was a boy in Maine a hundred years ago. He went with his grandfather, a Freewill Baptist, more out of curiosity, I gather, than anything else. He always remembered the men's guttural voices and the women's shrill and squeaky as they came on the dance floor suiting their actions to their song...
...EARL KALLAND. dean of Denver's Baptist Seminary: "If you allow a tramp to take the place of your children in your shelter, you are in error. A Christian has the obligation to ensure the safety of those dependent...
...descendant of a slave is about to enter Mars Hill College, bringing to an end 105 years of segregation at the Baptist school in western North Carolina.* Her admittance means something more: the payoff of a novel moral debt...
Like many another civilization before it, the U.S. is acquiring its goddess. Writing in the current issue of the Protestant biweekly, Christianity and Crisis, Harvey Cox of the Division of Evangelism of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies identifies her as The Girl...
...Virgin in the 12th and 13th centuries sustained the ideals of the age, "so The Girl symbolizes the values and aspirations of a consumer society. (She is crowned not in the political capital, notice, but in Atlantic City or Miami Beach, centers associated with leisure and consumption.)" Not that Baptist Cox identifies The Girl with the Madonna. "In fact she is a kind of anti-Madonna. She reverses most of the values traditionally associated with the Virgin-poverty, humility, sacrifice. In startling contrast, particularly, to the Biblical portrait of Mary in Luke I: 46-55, The Girl has nothing...