Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife? What about the fights between spouses that are not pat, villain-and-victim episodes? What about Barrel Trueblood of Terre Haute, Ind., whose son Travis was taken from him for three months in 1980 because the father had punished with the thwack of a ruler? Greg Dixon, a Baptist minister and head of Indiana's Moral Majority, says Trueblood was "just giving a normal whipping." Says he: "Reasonable people can detect whether it's assault and battery...
Tall, poised and impeccably dressed, Gray, 42, is a third-generation minister who returns home on weekends to preach at the Bright Hope Baptist Church in North Philadelphia. His critics in the Second District, including old machine politicians and more militant black leaders, fault Gray for his coziness with Philadelphia's white power structure. But his ability to move smoothly between the two worlds has clearly paid off for blacks. In 1978 he formed a coalition with white liberals that defeated a charter-change proposal that would have allowed then Mayor Frank Rizzo another term. Gray was the first...
...environmentalists. But with an exploratory committee, headed by Mayor Hatcher, established and a "draft" committee of black ministers set to deliver a million-signature petition to Jackson by late August, his hat is already sailing toward the ring. Says New York Congressman Charles Rangel: "He's a Baptist minister, and Baptist ministers get callings...
Christianity now has relatively fewer adherents-some 950,000, split about evenly between Protestants and Roman Catholics-than it had in the decades after Francis Xavier, a 16th century Jesuit and the pioneer Christian missionary in Japan. Says the Rev. Timothy Pietsch, a Baptist missionary: "A Japanese Christian has to give his allegiance to a 'foreign' God and say that he's not first and foremost a Japanese-an impossible task...
...Beverly Hills-based American Medical International (1982 revenues: $1.4 billion), the leading cause of death in the area was automobile accidents. But since Frye was not equipped to handle neurological injuries, as many as 540 accident victims a year had to be transported 65 miles to Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Today Frye boasts a complete neurology and neurosurgery staff. Says Jean Settlemyre, A.M.I.'s vice president for nursing, who was herself born at Frye: "Only with money could you do that...