Word: baptiste
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Jerry Falwell, the Lynchburg, Va., Baptist Fundamentalist who assumed the post of PTL chairman in mid-March, last week reviewed the lavish compensation ( that has been made in the past to Bakker and his fellow PTL officials. Falwell's reaction: "outrageous" and "indefensible." Among the disbursements were $350,000 in 1986 and $270,000 in the first quarter of 1987 to Richard Dortch, 55, the new president of PTL and Bakker's former chief aide; $360,000 last year and $250,000 as of March to David Taggart, 29, another Bakker aide; $160,000 in 1986 and $50,000 this...
According to Father Stephen J. Hartdegen, coordinator of the 1970 and 1987 translations, the revisers sought to eradicate both mistakes and colloquialisms. A notable NAB error occurred in Luke 1: 17, where antecedents got mixed up and "God himself" went before John the Baptist "in the spirit and power of Elijah," instead of John going before God. That was "practically blasphemous," says Jesuit Father Francis T. Gignac, chairman of the board of editors...
...says that "there was no room for them in the place where travelers lodged," which to some sounded like a plug for Travelodge motels. The revision adopts the familiar "There was no room for them in the inn." Instead of the weak and wordy "Reform your lives!" John the Baptist now proclaims a traditional "Repent...
...there were plenty of questions left about PTL's new administration. For starters, Falwell is a Baptist Fundamentalist opposed to the Pentecostal experiences that are central to many PTL supporters. Since a majority of Falwell's new board members are also non-Pentecostal, one tongues-speaking preacher in South Carolina launched a crusade to get Falwell out of PTL, calling his appointment an "abomination...
...board are no strangers to controversy. James Watt resigned as Ronald Reagan's Interior Secretary after offending several minority groups, and was recently fired by a Native American tribe that claimed his work as its lawyer was inept. Evangelist Bailey Smith, while president of the Southern Baptist Convention, gained brief notoriety by declaring, "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." Retired Televangelist Rex Humbard was once rebuked by the Securities and Exchange Commission for selling unregistered securities, and was taken to task in the press for spending too much of his ministry's money on his family...