Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More immediately, the movement plans to redouble its efforts for a human-life amendment. "The rulings should stimulate the efforts of those of us advocating a constitutional amendment," says the Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority. In St. Louis this week, the bells of Roman Catholic, Baptist, and Missouri Synod Lutheran churches will peal at 5 p.m. each day to show support for the measure...
Seldom, if ever, in the U.S. has there been so ecumenical a chorus of concern. The signers of the seven-point declaration included the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the United Methodist Church, the Lutheran Church in America, the Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ. The political spectrum ranged from right-whig TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell to Bishop James Armstrong, the liberal Methodist who heads the National Council of Churches. Twenty-three Roman Catholic bishops added their names, as did Jewish Leaders Albert Vorspan and Rabbi Wolfe Kelman. The prestige of the clergymen, as well...
Interior's Wrong Designs The Interior Department, under feisty Ideologue James Watt, always seems to be in trouble with Congress. On Monday in Lynchburg, Va., Secretary of the Interior Watt addressed the graduating class at Liberty Baptist College, founded by the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell. Said Watt: "We have seen government used by the enemies of liberty and freedom here in America, God's chosen place." But back in Washington, critics charged that Watt's Interior Department was proving all too charitable, in a most unsaintly way, to private industry...
...makeshift, third-floor apartment inside Seattle's University Baptist Church, a young woman refugee from El Salvador prepares for the birth of her baby, while down the hall a Salvadoran army deserter waits until he can flee to Canada. In Chicago's Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, a Salvadoran family of six lives above the gym. "If they make us go back," says the father, "we will disappear and die for certain...
...behavior and took equal pride in both-can make him appear undisciplined. In reality, he brings to his work the same dogged determination that carried him from a "sad rat" freshman to a "sharp sergeant" at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Raised by a strict Baptist mother in El Paso, Donaldson returned to attend Western Texas College. After graduate school at the University of Southern California and a stint in the Army, he came back to Texas. In 1959 he got a job with KRLD, the Dallas radio affiliate of CBS. All three TV networks initially rejected...